Woody Anderson Receives Cotton Grower® Achievement Award At Beltwide Cotton Conferences

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jan 9, 2008) – Woody Anderson, a cotton farmer from Colorado City, Texas, is this year’s Cotton Grower Achievement Award winner. Anderson was honored in front of his peers and the industry Wednesday, Jan. 9 at the Cotton Grower Beltwide Luncheon, held at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville.

The Cotton Grower® Achievement Award, sponsored by Case IH and Delta and Pine Land, recognizes and honors growers who are outstanding innovators, sound stewards of the environment, and leaders in their communities as well as the cotton industry.

Anderson is a grower, warehouseman, National Cotton Council chairman, award winner, and family man. These are just a few of the reasons that he was chosen to be the recipient of the 2007 award.

Anderson grew up on the family cotton farm and after earning a degree in journalism and public relations from the University of Texas, returned to the family farm for good in 1974. Anderson became very interested in the eradication of the boll weevil, a major threat to Texas cotton growers. As a result, Anderson joined the National Cotton Council in the early 1990’s and served on the Boll Weevil Action Committee.

In 2004, Woody was elected chairman of the National Cotton Council. Anderson has always been a politically active farmer in the state of Texas. In the ‘90s, U.S. Representative Charles Stenholm appointed him chairman of the Texas Farm Service Agency. As the chairman of the NCC, Anderson testified before congress on the effectiveness of the 2002 farm law in cotton and agriculture. Currently Anderson runs the farm with his brother and family and is in the process of adding to their 125 turbine windmills which generate electricity of the town. The Andersons have also been named the Colorado City Chamber of Commerce Farm Family of the Year.

More information on Anderson can be found in the January edition of Cotton Grower magazine. For information on the Cotton Grower Achievement Award, visit www.cottongrower.com/cgaa/index.html.

For more information or photos of the ceremony contact:

Kim McCloskey

440.602.9115

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