Eric Bell

Tennessee Consultant|Bell Ag Consulting Service

2024 Abstract - KING COTTON...WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM: Bell, a consultant for 30 plus years, says that farmers are getting out of the cotton business. He estimates that if conditions don’t change for growers, the industry will be in a crisis state in a decade. With seed and equipment prices up 40-80% over the past five years, Bell asks the question “How do you keep the growers from leaving and prices from constantly escalating?” He’ll focus on the need of farmers to find new, cost controlling ways to do business. Bell also will confront the threat he believes corporate America poses to the cotton industry. He’ll be joined Dr. Tom Allen of Mississippi State University.