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Jim Steadman By Jim Steadman|October 7, 2014

As U.S. cotton harvest begins, cotton futures are sitting at five-year lows – below the threshold that triggers government loan repayment assistance to farmers.

According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, that assistance program could help support prices and take the pressure off growers to market their cotton immediately after harvest.

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Jim Steadman is Field and Online Editor for Cotton Grower magazine. He has spent more than 35 years in agricultural writing and marketing. See all author stories here.