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NCGA
Leaders Prepare for FY 2002 (11-28-01)
The
National Corn Growers Association's (NCGA) Corn Board will gather in
St. Louis Thursday to begin a week's worth of planning for the future.
The meetings mark the first time the Board of 15 farmers, as well as
the NCGA Action Teams, have met since the new fiscal year commenced
on Oct. 1. NCGA Executive Vice President and CEO Rick Tolman said the
meetings would have a new set of agendas and a new budget to work with.
"We've
finished another successful year," said Tolman, "but we're
ready to move forward and build on those successes. We're going to look
at where we want to go, both as a board and as an association."
Tolman
said one change has been the addition of a new working group, the Ethanol
Marketing Committee. "This can be considered the fifth Action Team,"
he said, "and will report directly to the Board. I think the creation
of the Committee reflects NCGA's strong commitment to ethanol and the
important role it plays as one of our priorities."
Another
change is the significance placed on the Biotech Working Group. "They
will also be reporting straight to the Corn Board now," said Tolman.
"This also shows our dedication to making biotechnology accessible
by growers and the significance of it to NCGA."
Tolman
said one of the top events of the meetings will take place Thursday
evening. "The NCGA officers will meet with the Action Teams and
Committee chairs and discuss their responsibilities and their tasks
for the coming year," he said. "The Teams and Committees will
then meet Friday morning to review the information and to make sure
we're all on the same page."
The
meetings will take place at the Marriott Saint Louis Pavilion Downtown
hotel. (If this is a NOTD on our website we don't need to put the web
address 'cause the reader is already there.) For more details on the
meetings, visit the NCGA website at http://www.ncga.com.
Last reviewed
November 28, 2001
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