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He left the company later that year to join with two other partners (including his brother-in-law Monroe Dunaway Anderson) in starting Anderson, Clayton and Company, a cotton marketing firm based in Oklahoma City. [2] In 1916, the firm moved its headquarters to Houston, Texas, where it grew to be the world's largest cotton-trading enterprise. [3]
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture; it maintains programs in five commodity areas: [4] cotton and tobacco; dairy; fruit and vegetable; livestock and seed; and poultry. These programs provide testing, standardization, grading and market news services for those commodities, and ...
Cotton fields in the United States. The United States exports more cotton than any other country, though it ranks third in total production, behind China and India. [1] Almost all of the cotton fiber growth and production occurs in the Southern United States and the Western United States, dominated by Texas, California, Arizona, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
The company went public in 1945, and continued to expand by financing cotton growers in several states. [10] Monroe Anderson died in 1939, leaving a legacy which was used to fund the M.D. Anderson Foundation which, in turn, funded the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center by matching funding from the state of Texas. [11]
Jane Y. McCallum served as Secretary of State of Texas from 1927 to 1933, the longest term of office. The following is a list of secretaries of state of Texas for both the Republic of Texas and the State of Texas. [1]
[2] [3] Under this act, the Secretary of Agriculture promulgated regulations establishing the National Organic Program (NOP) in 2000. It restricts the use of the term "organic" to certified organic producers (excepting growers selling under $5,000 a year, who must still comply and submit to a records audit if requested, but do not have to ...
Organic cotton is generally defined as cotton that is grown organically in subtropical countries, such as India, Turkey, China, and parts of the USA, from non-genetically modified plants, and without the use of any synthetic agricultural chemicals, such as fertilizers or pesticides [1] aside from the ones allowed by the certified organic labeling.
Brooke Leslie Rollins (born April 10, 1972) [citation needed] is an American attorney and politician who is serving as the 33rd United States secretary of agriculture since February 2025. Rollins previously served as deputy general counsel , ethics advisor, and policy director to Texas governor Rick Perry .