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Cotton

Notices

CN-995
Modifications to Cotton Online Processing System (COPS) to Designate Electronic Warehouse Receipt (EWR) as "Cooperative" or "County" Bale

CN-994
Software Modifications Contained in County Release Nos. 572/573 and 574 That Prints Revised CCC-Cotton As, EAD Status Update in APSS, and COPS to View the Current EAD Holder

CN-993
Information About Using Bale Data File Formats for Cotton Loans and LDPs and Description of Cotton eLDP Options

CN-991
Requesting and Processing AMS Classing Data in the Cotton On-Line Processing System (COPS) and Implementation of Automated Monitoring Process

CN-990
Setting the Electronic Agent Designation (EAD) Status Flag for Centralized Cotton Redemption (CCR) of Upland Cotton Loans

CN-988
Using CCC-633 EZ for Upland Cotton Loan Deficiency Payment (LDP) Eligibility and Requests for Payment

CN-987
Modifications to the Cotton Electronic Loan Deficiency Payment (eLDP) System to Provide Module Lock-In Option and External Customer Access

CN-986
Revised Procedure for Downloading Bale Data Files, Rejecting Bales with Zero Loan Value, and Updated Premiums and Discounts for Processing 2005 Cotton Loans and LDPs

CN-985
Updating Files in Automated Price Support System (APSS) and the Cotton PC Software for Processing Crop Year 2005 Cotton Loans and Loan Deficiency Payments (LDPs)

Fact Sheet

USDA Registry for Cotton Merchants

USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) maintains an internal-use-only national-level registry to help cotton merchants efficiently redeem cotton held as collateral by USDA. Details

Upland Cotton

Summary of 2000 Commodity Loan and Payment Program. Details

Upland Seed Cotton - Locking the Adjusted World Price for Loan Deficiency Payments

Producers who request a Farm Service Agency (FSA) loan deficiency payment (LDP) on upland seed cotton have the option to "lock in" the world price for computing the payment.

Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment Program

The Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment Program (DCP) provides payments to eligible producers on farms enrolled for the 2002 through 2007 crop years. There are two types of DCP payments – direct payments and counter-cyclical payments. Both are computed using the base acres and payment yields established for the farm. DCP was authorized by the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (2002 Farm Bill) and is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA). Details.

Extra Long Staple Cotton

Producers may receive marketing assistance loans on all production of ELS cotton. Details.

Regulations

The regulations of this subpart are applicable to the 2002 through 2007 crops of upland cotton and extra long staple cotton. These regulations set forth the general provisions under which marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payment programs shall be administered by the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC). Additional terms and conditions are in the note and security agreement and the loan deficiency payment application that must be executed by a producer to receive marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments. (Text)

Rates Information

2005-Crop Upland Cotton Warehouse Loan Rates

2003 Cotton Premiums and Discounts Page 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6.

COTTON LDP RATES

Other Information

USDA Cotton Registry

Cotton Data File Format Requirements

Rice

Fact Sheet

Summary of 2002-2007 Program

Overview

The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (2002 Act) provides for direct and counter-cyclical payments, nonrecourse marketing assistance loans, and loan deficiency payments for the 2002-2007 crops, which help ensure a strong and viable agriculture sector in the United States. Details

Notices

LP-1919
2003 Crop Rice Loan Rates and Grade Discounts

LP-1918
Verifying Weekly Rice Prices Printed on Daily Market Rates

LP-1880
Rice Warehouse-Stored Loan Forfeitures and Sales of Farm-STored Loan Deliveries

News Release

Click here for the 2001/2002 Market Gain and Loan Deficiency Payment Rates.

Loan Rates

The loan rates are as follows:

2005 Rice Farm-stored Loan Rates by Class, Rough Basis

State	Long	Medium	Short
$ per hundredweight (cwt)
Arkansas	6.61	6.04	6.07
California	6.49	6.04	6.07
Louisiana	6.72	5.98	6.07
Mississippi	6.69	6.04	6.07
Missouri	6.54	6.04	6.07
Texas	6.93	6.04	6.07
National average	6.66	6.04	6.07

Application Form

CCC25 Addendum 1

Used by warehouse operators to enter an addendum to the Uniform Grain and Rice Storage Agreement to store CCC owned and loan oilseeds.

CCC25 Addendum 2
Used by warehouse operators to enter an addendum to the Uniform Grain and Rice Storage Agreement to store CCC owned and loan pulses.

CCC34
Warehouse operators use this form to succeed ownership of the warehousing business to another warehouse operator, with agreement of the Commodity Credit Corporation.

CCC34-1
Warehouse operators uses this form to transfer all rights and interest in ownership from one warehousing company to another, with agreement of the Commodity Credit Corporation.