Cotton Farming Ginners Marketplace December 2022 by One Grower Publishing

Ginners Marketplace COTTON

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TCGA Requests Take A Hard Nominations Look At Insurance For Ginner Costs Of The Year And Safety Culture At The Gin

Now is the time to begin sending in your nomination for the Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association Ginner of the Year. Please Distractions become “routine” in our letter. daily This lives.isOur consider takinghave the time to write a nomination the phones go off , we get text messages and we’re bombarded by highest honor a gin manager can receive by peers in the industhe never-ending news cycle. Everything seems to be trying try. Guidelines for the selection of Ginner of the Year include:to get attention, and it’s easy 1. our Service to customers by:to lose sight of what’s important. Thingsa.canQuality sneak ginning. up on you, and those are the ones that will jump up bite you. b. and Ethical business standards. In the yearconstructive or so, we’ve seen huge increases in our costs. c. last Other activities As2.I write this, we’re getting news the highest inflation in Service to all branches of theofcotton industry through more support than a generation… maybe two. and leadership of constructive activities and proWhile I’m personally seeing some of the things that increased grams. so3.much ease down a bit, it’s forthe costs that have Other contributions to not the common people of community, gone county up this and much, this fast, to come down or come down very state such as: much. a. We Civic will likely have to learn to live with some of them. leadership. b. Philanthropic work. The Cost Ofdeserves Insurance If you know of someone who this prestigious honOne of the costs that snuck up gins in the past year or, send us a letter describing hison or many her attributes. Supporting or so isfrom the cost insurance. Normally,and thisorganizations is a once-a-year letters otherofindustry individuals are expense we get hit with. encouraged. The past renewal letters cycle or more than 31. a bit of Send nomination totwo the have TCGAbeen office by Dec. Mail sticker shock for many in the ginning industry. Your associathe information to the Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association, Ginner

of the Year, 211 West Bagdad Avenue, Round Rock, TX 786645803. tions have been aware of this and have brought it to the attention of ourCotton memberships. But I think many of us got distracted The Texas Ginners’ Association provided this information. by the other things going on and have now been hit with the reality that it’s not getting better. * * * *but * insurance companies are This is a simplified explanation, going to do what they need to in order to stay in business. They NCGA Beltwide Cotton Conferences Ginning must make money like we do. The companies take our premiMeeting Schedule um and invest it. They pay claims with it, and they expect to have some left over. If losses are low and return on investment is Harrison good, youAshley, have happy insurance companies. We get stable National Cotton Ginners Association execpremiums and competition. utive vice president, has announced the dates and times (centhey for have investment higher-than-extralIf time) thepoor ginner meetingsreturns during and the Beltwide Cotton pected cost of claims (read inflation), have Conferences in New Orleans, Louisiana.you They are unhappy as follows:insurance companies. They may decide to pull out of the market  Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023: 1:30 – 3:15 p.m., NCGA Safety and and/or significantly increase rates. This is where we are today. Labor Committee Studios 8-9 Your ginners associations and the National Cotton Ginners’  Tuesday, Jan.been 10, 2023: 3:30 –about 5 p.m.,this NCGA Technology – Association have concerned for some time. We Quality Subcommittee Studios 8-9 need Air healthy insurers and competition, but we really can only help side of the insurance NCGA has put  one Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023:problem…losses. 8 – 11 a.m., NCGA Technology together a list of questions Committee Galerie 1 to ask yourself, so you can evaluate

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