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May
30, 2003 * Volume 10* Number 21
IN THIS ISSUE:
- NCGA-Sponsored
Ethanol Pump Tour Stops in Missouri Saturday
- NCGA Endorses
Legislation Supporting WTO Case
- NCGA Urges Growers
to Visit Congressional Members During Recess
- NCGA's Tolman
Discusses Biotech Potential at ABA Roundtable
- NCGA Notes Corn
Planting Nearly Completed
- NCGA Participates
in the USMEF Conference
- NCGA Promotion
Efforts of DDGS Acknowledged at Conference
- LRC Provides
Corn Grower Leaders with Online Access to NCGA information
NCGA-Sponsored Ethanol Pump Tour Stops in Missouri Saturday
With
Congress on vacation, now is the time for the nation's corn growers
to visit their elected officials and stress
to them the importance of the renewable fuels standard (RFS). As
a means of
promoting the benefits of ethanol and passage of
the RFS, AgriTalk Radio has again teamed up with NCGA to promote
the "AgriTalk
Ethanol Pump Tour 2003." The next stop on the
tour is this Saturday in St. Joseph, Mo. (More
On This Story)
NCGA Endorses Legislation Supporting WTO Case
NCGA Tuesday endorsed
legislation by Sen. Jim Talent (R-Mo.) and House Majority Whip
Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) supporting a World Trade
Organization (WTO) case against the European Union
(EU) moratorium on biotechnology. The Senate and House companion
resolutions (S.R..
154 and H.R..
252) were introduced last week. (More
On This Story)
NCGA Urges Growers to Visit Congressional Members During Recess
NCGA
is encouraging its members to take advantage of the congressional
recess this week, and meet with members from their
districts. (More
On This Story)
NCGA's Tolman Discusses Biotech Potential at ABA Roundtable
Biotechnology
is a tool that can allow farmers to move up the value chain. That
was the message NCGA CEO Rick Tolman delivered
at a biotechnology roundtable May 21 at the Donald
Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis. (More
On This Story)
NCGA Notes Corn Planting Nearly Completed
While corn planting
is 3 percent behind the five-year average, NCGA notes it is up
6 percent over this time last year with a total
88 percent of the nation's corn crop in the ground.
These statistics were released by the USDA in its weekly crop
report. Despite drought
conditions in some of the western Corn Belt states,
topsoil moisture remained high enough to allow planting to continue.
(More
On This Story)
NCGA Participates in the USMEF Conference
Distillers grains has
been a hot topic in the livestock industry for quite some time.
That trend continued May 22 when representatives
of NCGA attended the U.S. Meat Export Federation
(USMEF) Grain and Oilseed Caucus. NCGA was on hand to promote new
uses for distillers
grains and the work corn growers are doing to support
the livestock industry. (More
On This Story)
NCGA Promotion Efforts of DDGS Acknowledged at Conference
NCGA
received several compliments at the Distillers Grains Technology
Conference (DGTC) in Louisville, Ky., for its work
promoting distillers dry grains solubles (DDGS), said NCGA Livestock
Information and
Programs Manager Tracy Snider. (More
On This Story)
LRC Provides Corn Grower Leaders with Online Access to NCGA information
The
NCGA Leader Resource Center (LRC) is the online resource for state
and national corn grower leaders. The LRC is available to
state board members, Corn Board, national team, committee
and working group members, Corn Congress delegates and state and
national staffs.
The site is available at http://www.insidencga.com by subscription only. If you need your username or password reset
or need assistance
using the site, please contact membership@ncga.com
Recent information
added to the site include:
CORN BOARD
- Corn Board Conference Call Minutes, May 13,
2003 (interim approval)-PDF
CORN CONGRESS
- Meeting Notice-Delegates/Alternates-PDF
- Meeting
Agenda, July 14-15, 2003 Corn Congress-PDF
- Listing of Voting
Delegates/Alternates of May 22, 2003-PDF
- Corn Congress Meeting
Registration Form-PDF
- Bylaws-Proposed Amendments-PDF
PUBLICATIONS
- Inside Information, May 20, 2003 - Environmental
Groups Attempt To Link Pesticides To Clean Water Act
- Inside
Information, May 21, 2003 - NCGA Urges President Bush To Hold
Mexico To NAFTA
RESEARCH
RESEARCH & BUSINESS
DEVELOP ACTION TEAM
- Research Friday
Update, Volume 3 Number 13 (PDF)
For more information, please contact the lead staff for your area
of interest, Gary Bradley, NCGA Communications, at 636-733-9004,
bradley@ncga.com or Rodger Mansfield, NCGA Technology, 636-733-9004,
mansfield@ncga.com
Of Special Interest:
The NCGA Legislative Action Center contains valuable up-to-date
information on federal, state and local officials as well as local
media. To learn more, click on the links below.
Click here to read NCGA’s
WTO suit endorsement letter to Blunt.
Click here to read NCGA’s WTO suit
endorsement letter to Talent.
NCGA THIS WEEK
- May 31-June 7 NCGA President Fred Yoder, President-Elect
Dee Vaughan, Biotech Working Group Chairman Leon Corzine, CEO
Rick Tolman, and
representatives from the U.S. Grains Council
will be in Europe, discussing biotech issues with various European
and
EU agriculture
representatives
- June 2-4 NCGA Director of Business
Development and Corn Processing Research Rene Shunk will be
in Urbana,
Ill., attending the Third
International Starch Technology Conference
- June 3-4
NCGA Vice President of Marketing Brian Stockman will be in
Indianapolis attending a meeting of the
Indiana Corn Growers
Association Task Force
- June 4-6
NCGA Vice President of Research and Business Development Dr.
Richard
Glass and
Shunk will be in
Indianapolis, touring potential
sites for the 2004 Corn Utilization & Technology
Conference
More calendar
information is available on the NCGA Leader Resource Center, http://www.insidencga.com.
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