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Plains Cotton Growers, Inc., is
pleased to announce that the organization’s
54th Annual Meeting
will be held Friday, April 1, 2011,
in the Banquet Hall of the Lubbock
Memorial Civic Center. The meeting is
being held in conjunction with the Texas
Cotton Ginners’ Association Annual
Meeting and Trade Show, March 31-April
1, 2011, in Lubbock.
PCG’s Annual Meeting will begin at
8:30 a.m. with registration, and the program
will start promptly at 9 a.m.
Headlining PCG’s 54th Annual Meeting
lineup is keynote speaker Walt Coleman
of Little Rock, Ark. Coleman is a sixth generation
dairyman with an interesting
second career that has brought him (often
anonymously) into the living rooms of
millions of Americans for the last
22 years.
While his weekday job is centered on
the operation of Coleman Dairy in Little
Rock, Coleman’s weekends each fall are
spent on the much grander stage of professional
football.
Coleman’s motivational message incorporates
the many lessons he has learned
during an incredible life that mixes the
reality of operating a thriving, family-oriented
agricultural business with the fastpaced,
and often maligned, role of referee
in the National Football League.
Through it all, Coleman has developed
a unique perspective on life and success,
which he delivers in a relaxed style that is
sure to inform and entertain.
Preceding Coleman on the PCG program
are John Maguire, Vice President-
Washington Operations for the National
Cotton Council of America, and William
A. “Bill” Gillon of Memphis, Tenn., who
was named President and CEO of the
Cotton Board in October of 2010.
Gillon has previously served as General
Counsel for the NCC and in numerous
government posts, including Senior
Counsel for the Committee on Agriculture
Nutrition and Forestry of the U.S. Senate
and as an attorney in the Office of
General Counsel at the U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
Maguire will bring the PCG membership
up-to-date on the challenges facing
agriculture and the cotton industry in the
tense legislative and budgetary climate
that currently permeates Washington.
Gillon will discuss his new role at the
Cotton Board and highlight recent
achievements and the latest news from
the Cotton Research and Promotion
Program of Cotton Incorporated.
During the PCG meeting, awards recognizing
the 2010 High Plains Cotton
Agent of the Year and the winners of the
recently completed FFA West Texas
Cotton Video Contest sponsored
by Deltapine will
be presented.
Additional information
about PCG and the Annual
Meeting can be found at www.plainscotton.org. |
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