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NCGA
Historical Timeline
- 1956
-- Walter Goeppinger meets with President
Dwight Eisenhower to discuss the oversupply
of corn and low corn prices.
- 1957
-- Goeppinger and farmers from nine states
form the National Corn Growers Association.
- 1959
-- Goeppinger and NCGA leaders were instrumental
in forming the U.S. Feed Grains Council to
develop overseas markets.
- 1960
-- Goeppinger named by President John F. Kennedy
to a task force to formulate a new farm policy
that would halt unbridled U.S. agricultural
production.
- 1961
-- The first grower membership chairman is
named and a bi-monthly National Corn Letter
for members is established.
- 1962
-- NCGA began work on production issues, such
as corn diseases.
- 1965
-- The National Corn Yield Contest began with
20 entries from Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio.
- 1967
-- Iowa Corn Growers Association becomes the
first official member state association.
- 1968
-- NCGA leaders discuss and narrowly vote
down the a national corn checkoff.
- 1969
-- NCGA sponsors a Corn Quality and Standards
Conference.
- 1973
-- Thurman Gaskill, Iowa, succeeds Goeppinger
as second NCGA president. Shell Chemical Company
takes 12 winners of the 1972 National Corn
Yield Contest on tour of Italy and Spain.
- 1974
-- John Curry, Ill., elected NCGA president.
Emphasis remains on farm policy, including
a recommendation that all corn farmers voluntarily
cut 1975 corn acreage 20 percent below 1974
plantings.
- 1976
-- First NCGA annual meeting to be held outside
of Iowa took place in Kansas City. First reports
made by state presidents to the assembly.
Corn grower members represent 47 states.
- 1977
- New by-laws restructure NCGA into a federation
of state groups in which state delegates would
attend meetings to set national policy.
- 1978
- NCGA encourages USDA to spend $3.5 to $4
million for grain alcohol (ethanol) research.
- 1979
- Corn Growers Association of North Carolina
is the first state corn checkoff board to
present NCGA with a contribution. Discussions
on forming the National Corn Development Foundation
(NCDF) began.
- 1980
- NCGA leaders work with Soviet Union officials
to re-establish corn sales.
- 1982
- President Ronald Reagan keynotes NCGA annual
meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, and the NCDF
is founded to accept funds from state checkoff
entities.
- 1984
- NCGA moves the office to St Louis and hires
Jeff Gain as chief executive officer. Members
begin receiving Corn Grower Newsletter monthly.
- 1985
- Colorado introduces the first ethanol legislation
as an environmental initiative. NCGA and Ciba-Geigy
start the Leadership Development Program.
- 1987
- The first Corn Utilization Conference attracted
nearly 240 researchers. NCGA renames the annual
meeting Corn Classic.
- 1990
- NCGA champions corn grower interests in
the Farm Bill debate.
- 1991
- An estimated two million people view the
Seeds of Change exhibit at the Smithsonian
Institution thanks to NCGA and state checkoff
boards support.
- 1993
- Food, seed and industrial uses outpace exports
for the first time in history.
- 1994
- U.S. Growers produce a record setting 10
billion bushels of corn were produced.
- 1996
- Corn Classic becomes Commodity Classic as
the joint annual meeting of NCGA and the American
Soybean Association.
- 1998
- NCGA restructures to become more responsive
to grower and member state needs.
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