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July
11 , 2003 * Volume 10* Number 27
NCGA's
Mission: To Create and Increase Opportunities
for Corn Growers in a Changing World
This is Corn Commentary,
the weekly newsletter for state and national grower leaders of the National
Corn Growers Association (NCGA) available via the U.S. Postal Service.
For complete stories and updated NCGA information, visit www.ncga.com
or the NCGA Leader Resource Center, www.insidencga.com.
IN THIS ISSUE:
- Key Commodity
Officials to Address NCGA Corn Congress
- PRX’s
Hudson Predicts ‘Record Yield’ in 2003 Corn Production
- NCGA
Calls on Senate Energy Committee to Look at Ways to Increase Natural
Gas
- NCGA
Concerned Over Natural Gas Crisis; PRX's Hudson to Address Issue at
Corn Congress
- NCGA
Urges Senate to Confirm Dorr Nomination
- NCGA
Member Works Harder to Promote Stewardship, Environmental Protection
for Dairy Operation
- Australian
Parliament Member Visits NCGA
Key
Commodity Officials to Address NCGA Corn Congress
NCGA leaders are
preparing for their semi-annual Corn Congress July 14-15 in Washington,
D.C. This year, key speakers for the event will be Rick Berman, executive
director of the Center for Consumer Freedom, James E. Newsome, chairman
of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Sen. George Voinovich
(R-Ohio), this year's recipient of the NCGA President's Award. (More
On This Story)
PRX's
Hudson Predicts 'Record Yield' in 2003 Corn Production
Despite flooding
in the eastern Corn Belt and areas of dryness remaining throughout the
nation, ProExporter (PRX) President Bill Hudson said this year's corn
crop has the potential to break the harvest record of 138.6 bushels
per acre set in 1994. Hudson, who is slated to speak July 15 on the
current natural gas/fertilizer crisis (see http://www.ncga.com/news/notd/2003/july/070903.htm)
at NCGA’s semi annual Corn Congress in Washington, D.C., said
it's all a matter of predicting the unpredictable. (More
On This Story)
NCGA
Calls on Senate Energy Committee to Look at Ways to Increase Natural
Gas
In a letter Thursday
to the Senate Energy Committee, NCGA encouraged members to fully examine
policies that would increase the nation’s supply of natural gas.
NCGA’s letter arrived the same day as the committee’s oversight
hearing on natural gas that discussed reasons behind the high price
of natural gas, its effect on the economy and potential solutions. (More
On This Story)
NCGA
Concerned Over Natural Gas Crisis; PRX's Hudson to Address Issue at
Corn Congress
Extreme volatility
in the U.S. natural gas market is causing massive spikes in the price
of fertilizer and has NCGA concerned. According to numbers released
by The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) at its recent Natural Gas Summit,
11 ammonia plants representing 21 percent of the U.S. capacity have
been closed since 2000 when the crisis began. (More
On This Story)
NCGA
Urges Senate to Confirm Dorr Nomination
NCGA Thursday sent
a letter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Minority
Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) endorsing Tom Dorr’s nomination for
undersecretary for rural development. (More
On This Story)
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| Members
of the NCGA Corn Board, NCGA staff and the Corn Marketing Program
of Michigan staff tour the Larry Nobis farm. |
NCGA
Member Works Harder to Promote Stewardship, Environmental Protection
for Dairy Operation
NCGA Production
and Stewardship Action Team member Larry Nobis strives to ensure his
work is above reproach. As a result of his desire to run a top-notch
operation, his dairy farm in Saint Johns, Mich., is not only within
the standards set by state and federal regulations -- it exceeds them.
(More On
This Story)
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| Australian
Parliament member Deanne Kelly visited NCGA’s Washington office
Tuesday. Here she is pictured talking about ethanol production with
NCGA Vice President of Public Policy Jon Doggett, center, and Director
of Public Policy Mark Palmer. |
Australian
Parliament Member Visits NCGA
When Australian
Parliament member Deanne Kelly walked into NCGA’s Washington,
D.C., office Tuesday, she said she felt she should pay homage because
she had heard so much about the organization and had always wanted to
visit. (More
On This Story)
Of
Special Interest:
To View
the Profiles of All the 2003 NCGA Corn Board Candidates, Click HERE!
NCGA
THIS WEEK
- July 12-15 NCGA
leaders and staff will be attending Action Team meetings and Corn
Congress in Washington, D.C.
More calendar information
is available on the NCGA Leader Resource Center, http://www.insidencga.com.
© 2003 National
Corn Growers Association
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