USDA Announces 2023 Upland Cotton Marketing Assistance Loan Rate Farmers.gov sent this bulletin at 09/30/2022 12:24 PM EDT Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. USDA Announces 2023 Upland Cotton Marketing Assistance Loan Rate 09/30/2022 12:00 PM EDT WASHINGTON, Sept. 30, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation today announced that the marketing assistance loan rate for 2023-crop base quality upland cotton is 52.00 cents per pound.