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August 10, 2001 * Volume 8 * Number 27
IN THIS ISSUE:
- NCGA Encouraged
by Corps Plans to Proceed With Navigation Study
- NCGA Advocates
Trade to Benefit Nation's Growers
- NCGA President-Elect
Attends Sweetener Symposium, Welcomes NAFTA Ruling on High Fructose
Corn Syrup
- NCGA Member
Counters Critics of Ethanol
- NCGA Talks Trade
at International Sweetener Symposium
- NCGA Inundated
with Corn Yield Contest Entries
- Corn Growers
Welcome Senate Appropriations Committee Bioinformatics Provisions;
New Corn Hybrids Possible with Project
- NCGA July Recruitment
Campaign Ignites Fireworks in Five States
- It's Time to
Begin Planning for the 2001/2002 NCGA Action Team Appointments
- NCGA This Week
- Corn Congress
Photo Album http://www.ncga.com/news/2001cornCongress/index.htm
NCGA Encouraged
by Corps Plans to Proceed With Navigation Study
The National Corn
Growers Association (NCGA), which has fought hard for infrastructure
improvements on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, is encouraged
by an announcement last week by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of
its intent to officially resume the Upper Mississippi and Illinois River
Navigation Feasibility Study. For details, go to http://www.ncga.com/news/notd/2001/august/080701a.htm
NCGA Advocates
Trade to Benefit Nation's Growers
This is the first
article in a four-part series on the importance of Trade Promotion Authority
to corn growers and U.S. agriculture as a whole. The National Corn Growers
Association (NCGA) urges corn growers to voice their support of TPA
to their elected officials during the Congressional recess. For more
details, go to http://www.ncga.com/news/notd/2001/august/080801.htm
NCGA President-Elect
Attends Sweetener Symposium, Welcomes NAFTA Ruling on High Fructose
Corn Syrup
The National Corn
Growers Association (NCGA) welcomes a long-awaited NAFTA panel ruling
that Mexican antidumping duties on U.S.-produced high fructose corn
syrup (HFCS) are illegal. For more information, go to http://www.ncga.com/news/notd/2001/august/080601.htm.
NCGA Member Counters
Critics of Ethanol
"Ethanol is going
to raise gas prices fifty cents a gallon." "Ethanol actually makes pollution
worse." These are just two of the myths that have been showing up frequently
since the Bush administration denied the California Oxygen waiver in
June. And they just aren't true, says the National Corn Growers Association
(NCGA). For more details on this story, go to http://www.ncga.com/news/notd/2001/august/080701.htm.
DID YOU KNOW??
http://www.ncga.com provides a daily State News Roundup summary section.
Read the latest news from state corn grower associations and state promotion
boards.
NCGA Talks Trade
at International Sweetener Symposium
The 18th Annual
International Sweetener Symposium in Sun Valley, Idaho, wrapped up Wednesday
after three days of discussion on topics such as trade policy, sweetener
industry effects on the U.S. economy and the recent NAFTA panel ruling
on high fructose corn syrup. For more details, go to http://www.ncga.com/news/notd/2001/august/080901.htm.
NCGA Inundated
with Corn Yield Contest Entries
The final entry
deadline for the National Corn Growers Association's (NCGA) National
Corn Yield Contest (NCYC) was Aug.1 and the NCGA office in St. Louis
has seen hundreds of entries. The contest is an annual event sponsored
by NCGA. For more information on this story, go to http://www.ncga.com/news/notd/2001/august/080901a.htm.
Corn Growers
Welcome Senate Appropriations Committee Bioinformatics Provisions; New
Corn Hybrids Possible with Project
Corn growers are
welcoming action by the Senate Appropriations Committee, last week,
that approved provisions focused on increasing funding for bioinformatics.
For details on this story, go to http://www.ncga.com/news/notd/2001/august/080601b.htm.
NCGA July Recruitment
Campaign Ignites Fireworks in Five States
While America celebrated
its birthday with fireworks and picnics, the hard working recruiters
continued their work in increasing the voice of NCGA. NCGA membership
increased by 239 members in the month of July. Kudos go out to Illinois
who increased their membership by 102 members, to South Dakota who increased
their membership by 81 members, to Minnesota and Maryland who increased
their membership by 20 each and to Iowa who increased their membership
by 19. NCGA would also like to congratulate the four winners of the
July Recruitment Campaign Prize Month. The winners of the palm pilots
were:
- Teddi Mueller
- Surpass Div.
- Leon Corzine
- NCGA Div.
- Leslie Roach
- Warrior Div.
It's Time to
Begin Planning for the 2001/2002 NCGA Action Team Appointments!
NCGA is in the process
of contacting all current NCGA Action Team members asking if they would
like to continue their service into 2001/2002, if selected. Letters
are also being sent to state organizations offices to obtain applications
from persons interested in future service on a Team. Timeline:
- August 3-Mailings
sent to current Action Team Members and to state offices
- September 7--Applications
are due into Kathy at the NCGA/St. Louis office
- September 24
(week of)--Team appointments by 2001/2002 president (Tim Hume)
- October 1 (week
of)--Announcement of teams and notification to all applicants.
Please watch your
mail for "AT" information, and if you have any questions about teams,
service or applications, feel free to call me at the numbers noted below.
Thanks!
NCGA THIS WEEK
- Aug. 3-Sept.
6 Congressional Recess
- Aug. 14 NCGA
Director of Business Development Rene Shunk is attending a fiber fermentation
meeting in Chicago, Ill.
- Aug. 15 NCGA
CEO and Executive Vice President Rick Tolman will address the Ohio
Corn Growers Association's Field Day at the Fayette County Farm in
Washington, Ohio
- Aug. 16-17 NCGA
President-Elect Tim Hume and Tolman will be at the Monsanto Grower
Advisory Council meeting in Denver, Colo.
- Aug. 16-17 NCGA
Director of Industry Relations Tom Slunecka is attending Leadership
Training in South Dakota.
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