George LaCour named president of American association NCGA

Curtis Stewart, Spade, Texas, who served as NCGA president in 2020 and 2021, will serve as NCGA chairman. Harrison Ashley, Cordova, Tenn., is NCGA’s executive vice president, the association said in a media release.

LaCour is a founding board member and current vice president of Tri-Parish Gin in Lettsworth, La., a producer-owned ginning and whole-seed marketing operation. He also is general manager of the farming partnership GNG Farms in Morganza, where he oversees production on 5,000 acres in Pointe Coupee Parish.

A National Cotton Council (NCC) Cotton Leadership Program graduate, LaCour also is a graduate of the Louisiana State Agricultural Leadership Program and the Texas A&M Executive Program for Agricultural Producers. A past president of the Southern Cotton Ginners Association, LaCour was that organisation’s Ginner of the Year in 2016. He has served in multiple NCGA and NCC leadership positions among them as an NCC director and a director of NCC’s export promotion arm, Cotton Council International. He was Cotton Board chairman in 2017.

Also announced at NCGA’s annual meeting was that Chris Breedlove, general manager/CEO of Willacy Co-op Gin in Raymondville, Texas, is the 2021 Horace Hayden National Cotton Ginner of the Year. Honoured as recipients of NCGA’s 2021-22 Charles C. Owen Distinguished Service Award were two other Texans -- Jimmy Stover of Corpus Christi, president of Stover Equipment Company; and Russel Sutton of Lubbock, vice president of Business Development for Lummus Corporation.

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