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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Boisen
Named Leader of National Corn Growers-U.S. Grains Council Trade Team
August
12 ,
2003
Contacts:
Mimi Ricketts, NCGA, 636-733-9004
Cheri Johnson, USGC, 202-326-0625
ST. LOUIS (August
12, 2003) — National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) member Doug
Boisen has been named team leader of the joint NCGA - U.S. Grains Council
(USGC) Trade Policy A-team. Appointed by NCGA president-elect Dee Vaughan,
Boisen is one of six NCGA members to serve on the team.
Also serving on
the team will be six USGC members as well as a National Grain Sorghum
Producers (NGSP) and a National Barley Growers Association (NBGA) member.
“This joint
trade policy A-team will be a special effort by the USGC to reach out
and include the producer groups from NCGA, NGSP and the NBGA as we develop,
monitor and strive for freer trade policy throughout the world,”
said Terry Wolf, USGC president.
“Doug has
served NCGA well for the past year as the chairman of NCGA’s Trade
Task Force and I look forward to working with him in this new role,”
Vaughan said of the Minden, Neb., grower. “By bringing together
the NCGA and Grains Council trade teams, we are able to work more efficiently
as organizations and accomplish much on behalf of our members.”
Among Boisen’s
initial duties as team chair will be to represent the group at the World
Trade Organization Ministerial in Cancun, Mexico, in September. “This
is a critical year for trade policy negotiations, not only the WTO negotiations
in Cancun, but in bilateral trade negotiations around the world and
Doug’s leadership will be crucial,” Wolf added.
A-team members serve
two-year terms. NCGA will name the rest of its representatives in October,
when Vaughan begins his term as NCGA president. Representatives from
NGSP, NBGA and USGC will be named in September.
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