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IN THIS ISSUE:
- NCGA Applauds Wal-Mart’s
Switch to PLA Packaging
- Texas Opens First Public E85 Pump
- Lorrie Morgan to Headline 2006
Commodity Classic Evening of Entertainment
- NCGA’s Tolman Presents Future
of Agriculture to SEMO Students
- NCGA Receives Grant from APHIS
to Prevent Unintended Releases of Biotech Crops
- Nebraska Corn Board Initiates
Grant-Funded Study of Distillers Grains Usage
- Yoder Participates in Coexistence
Conference in Slovenia
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NCGA Applauds Wal-Mart's Switch to PLA Packaging
The
NCGA applauds Wal-Mart’s decision this week to use plastics
made from corn for packaging and other retail items. (More
On This Story)
Texas Opens First Public E85 Pump
The
Corn Producers Association of Texas (CPAT) celebrated the opening of
the state’s first public E85 pump in San Antonio on Wednesday,
the National Corn Growers Association notes. (More
On This Story) |
Country star Lorrie Morgan will perform at the Commodity Classic Evening of Entertainment in Anaheim, Calif., March 4. Commodity Classic is the combined convention and trade show of the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) and the American Soybean Association (ASA).
Lorrie Morgan to Headline 2006 Commodity
Classic Evening of Entertainment
Commodity Classic, the combined convention and trade show of the NCGA and the American Soybean Association (ASA), has announced country star Lorrie Morgan will be the headline act for the Evening of Entertainment at the 2006 Commodity Classic in Anaheim, Calif., March 2-4. (More
On This Story)
NCGA's Tolman Presents Future of Agriculture to SEMO Students
NCGA CEO Rick Tolman presented a perspective on the future of agriculture to some of the future farmers and leaders of agribusiness at a Southeast Missouri State (SEMO) agriculture seminar in Cape Girardeau, Mo., on Wednesday. (More
On This Story)
NCGA Receives Grant from APHIS to Prevent Unintended
Releases of Biotech Crops
The NCGA received a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA/APHIS) to "support the development of a document on the Best Practices to Prevent Unintended Release of Regulated Bioengineered Plants." (More
On This Story)
Nebraska Corn Board Initiates Grant-Funded Study
of Distillers Grains Usage
The Nebraska Corn Board (NCB) recently began the planning phase of a survey that will poll 9,000 livestock producers regarding their attitudes about the use of distillers grains. The NCGA and several other groups are collaborating with NCB to conduct the survey and ultimately analyze its results. (More
On This Story)
Yoder Participates in Coexistence Conference
in Slovenia
Ohio corn grower Fred Yoder represented the NCGA at an agricultural coexistence conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in early October to discuss the benefits of biotechnology and how biotech, conventional and organic farms can operate right next to each other. (More
On This Story) |
AROUND THE CORN BELT
News
from State Associations
North Dakota: David Martin, FM Chamber Executive
Director, proclaimed Fargo to be the "E85 Capitol of America" and Gov. John
Hoeven was presented a plaque by the ND Corn Council recognizing
his role in growing the E85 market. Kent Satrang, manager of
the Main Ave Cenex, said last year he sold about 8,000 gallons a
month of E85 out of his Fargo and West Fargo Cenex stores. In contrast,
September 2005 E85 sales in Satrang’s Fargo and West
Fargo stores totaled a whopping 66,359 gallons – over an 800%
increase. Satrang’s Fargo store carried the bulk of those
sales at 41,442 gallons. In the past three months local consumers
have bought over 200,000 gallons of E85 from Satrang’s Fargo
area stations.
Illinois: Illinois Commodity Conference is scheduled for Nov.
22, 2005, in Bloomington, Ill. Paul Ellinger, associate professor
with the University of Illinois Department of Agricultural & Consumer
Economics, will provide a financial analysis of Illinois farms and
what it means to growers as planning begins for the 2006 growing
season. Another recent addition to the program is Scott Stuart who
serves as the president and chief executive officer of the National
Livestock Producers Association. Stuart will address the significance
of the evolving animal identification issue for Illinois livestock
producers.
South Dakota: Ethanol-blended gasoline will be 30 cents less per
gallon on Oct. 22 at the Jones Food Center in Parker, S.D. The South
Dakota Corn Growers Association (SDCGA) is sponsoring the event from
11 a.m. to 2 p.m
Minnesota: The Center for Producer-Owned
Energy has decided to take an opportunity after harvest this year
to stop and take stock of the now-advanced state of renewable energy
in Minnesota. They have set Wednesday, Nov. 16 as the date for
a daylong conference, to be held at the Holiday Inn, Owatonna,
called "Harvesting Ag-Based
Power." "As a result of the success we've had with
ethanol, wind power and biodiesel, there are now additional opportunities
for co-generation and co-products, like distillers grains from ethanol
or glycerin from biodiesel. And, there will be co-products coming
along that we have only just started looking at," said Dan
Lemke communications director for the Agricultural Utilization Research
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NCGA Chairman Leon
Corzine attends AC 21 meeting in Washington, D.C.
NCGA CEO Rick Tolman attends McDonald’s
Food Quality Symposium in Chicago.
NCGA Director of Biotechnology Paul Bertels
attends Aflatoxin Workshop in Raleigh, N.C.
NCGA President Gerald Tumbleson, NCGA Chairman
Leon Corzine, NCGA Vice President of Public Policy and NCGA
Director of Public Policy June Silverberg meet with U.S.
Trade Representative Rob Portman in Washington, D.C.
NCGA Chairman Corzine meets with Sen. Saxby Chambliss
(R-Ga.) of the Senate Agriculture Committee in Washington,
D.C.
NCGA Corn Board member Bob Dickey testifies before
the House Agriculture Committee in Washington, D.C.
NCGA Corn Board member Bob Dickey testifies before
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Calendar information is available
on the NCGA Leader Resource Center, http://www.insidencga.com
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