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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DDGS Marketing Opportunities
to be Focus of National Distillers Grains Marketing Conference and Regional
Workshop
March
13,
2003
Mimi Ricketts, NCGA,
(636) 733-9004
Gary Bradley, NCGA (636) 733-9004
(ST. LOUIS) March
13, 2003 -- Key stakeholders in the marketing of distillers grains (DDGS),
including representatives from the National Corn Growers Association
(NCGA), will explore new opportunities in the ethanol by-product at
the National Distillers Grains Marketing Conference April 7-9 and NCGA
Regional Distillers Grains Workshop April 10 in Des Moines, Iowa.
Experts at the conference
and workshop will provide critical information about marketing and feeding
distillers grains.
“They will
look at specific uses other than ruminants for DDGS as well as export
marketing opportunities,” said Jerry Larson, a corn grower from
Elbow Lake, Minn., and a member of the NCGA Research & Business
Development Action Team.
Larson added that
the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, one of the
nine sponsors of the two-day conference, will provide overview results
of a recent survey to feeders regarding what they expect from DDGS and
whether or not they are familiar with the product.
The workshop, sponsored
by the NCGA, the Iowa Corn Promotion Board and the Iowa Department of
Agriculture and Land Stewardship, will feature researchers from major
land grant universities with experience in using distillers grains,
as well as feed industry professionals who know how to best use this
valuable ethanol co-product.
“Attendance
at the conference and workshop is important for those who are looking
at feeding DDGS, for those who are trying to improve the quality of
DDGS and for anyone in the ethanol industry,” Larson concluded.
Registration information
is available by clicking on the DDGS conference and workshop icon on
the NCGA web site. On-site registrations will also be available.
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The National Corn
Growers Association mission is to create and increase opportunities
for corn growers in a changing world and to enhance corn's profitability
and usage. NCGA represents more than 32,000 members, 25 affiliated state
corn grower organizations and hundreds of thousands of growers who contribute
to state checkoff programs.
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