Texas cotton producer Ricky Bearden has been elected the Cotton Incorporated Chairman for the 2010 through 2012 term. Bearden he grows cotton, wheat, milo, peanuts and black-eyed peas on his 6,000-acre farm at Plains. He has served as a director on the boards of the National Cotton Council, Cotton Incorporated, and the American Cotton Producers and was also president of Plains Cotton Growers, Inc. from 2004 to 2006. Bearden succeeds California grower Ted Sheely, who held the post for t¬he prior two years.
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