# Reviewing Cottonseed Provisions in the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Bill - farmdoc daily

> The Senate Agriculture Appropriations bill (S.1603) includes a provision directing USDA to designate cottonseed as a covered commodity, making it eligible for farm program payments from the 2018 crop year. The article reviews how cotton's removal from ARC and PLC in 2014 shaped generic base acres.

- Date: 2017-09-13 · published 2017-09-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/69049-reviewing-cottonseed-provisions-in-the-senate-agriculture-appropriations-bill
- Commodities: [Cottonseed Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CSM.md)

## Why it matters

If cottonseed becomes a covered commodity, support payments could encourage cotton planting and raise cottonseed output over time, a modestly bearish factor for cottonseed meal supply.

## Read by commodity

- CSM: bearish ▼

## Sources

- farmdocdaily.illinois.edu: https://farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2017/09/review-cottonseed-provisions-ag-ppropriations-bill.html

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