International Cotton Community Focuses on Lubbock for ICAC Plenary Meeting
July 27, 2010 The international cotton industry will shift its focus to Lubbock, TX, from September 20-25 for the International Cotton Advisory Committee’s (ICAC) 69th Plenary Meeting.
Held annually in places as far reaching as Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America, the ICAC’s Plenary Meetings aim to host dialogue that will ultimately foster a healthy world cotton economy. Lubbock was chosen as the site of this year’s meeting from a host of cities internationally recognized as hubs of the cotton industry. This fact is not lost on many natives of the High Plains.
“What I think it will do is focus the world’s attention on Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas as such an important supplier of top-quality cotton to world markets,” says Wally Darneille, President and CEO of the Plains Cotton Cooperative Association. “Hopefully, we’ll be awash in cotton at the time of the conference, and people will see how this is the ‘biggest cotton patch in the world.’”
Topics on the agenda for this year’s meeting include best practices in cotton ginning, regulation in the U.S. futures market and the outlook for cotton prices and competing commodities.
Recently the organizing committee of the ICAC announced an agreement with Cotton Grower’s parent company, Meister Media Worldwide that will facilitate the delivery of timely, high-level industry intelligence to cotton professionals around the world. Cotton Grower and its sister publication Cotton International magazine were named the official publications of the 69th Plenary Meeting of the ICAC.
As part off the agreement, the magazines will provide on-site coverage of Plenary Meeting events, including video and in-depth reporting on issues driving the revitalization of the global cotton market.
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