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Having come from an ancestry producing cotton, throughout the south, H. Rogers Varner began his career as a merchant in 1949, after serving in the PAcific as a Marine during WWII, and graduating from Ole Miss. Raising 3 sons, he exposed
them early to the cotton business, as Rogers, Jr., Bryan, and Michael all worked in the business and received a close-up view of how spot cotton moves from producers to hand mills.
Following graduation from Ole Miss, the three brothers took different routes into the brokerage business. Rogers worked for 8 years as a professional engineer, on the way to completing
a masters degree from Tulane University in engineering and business. Bryan worked for McFadden Company in Memphis, Phoenix, and South America, before signing on with Dean Witter. Michael headed
for New York, where he spent eleven years as a floor trader, eventually building one of the largest comission booths on the cotton floor. In 1987, they formed the business,
Varner Brothers, as it is today, moving the main ofice from Memphis to Mississippi. Now Varner Brothers serves a variety of cotton clients all around the world with their special research reports, their clearing of New York cotton futures, and of course, their daily newsletter, The Cotton Row Journal, one of the most widely read cotton specific journals in the industry today.
VARNER BROTHERS today maintains their main office in Cleveland, MS, in the heart of one of the largest cotton-growing areas of the world, the Mississippi Delta. There, they write their own research and daily publications exclusively for their clients use and knowledge as well as operate an introducing broker firm to clear their customers' cotton futures and facilitate with their hedging needs.
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