Page 20-Com Talk. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 9,1993 Contribution Of Corn Exports To Domestic Utilization WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. Feed Grains Council (USFGC) is a private, non profit organization that deve lops arid expands export mark ets for U.S.-produced feed grains and their co-products through a network of 13 inter national offices. The council is member funded by producer organiza tions, state checkoff entities and agricultural businesses. This combination of mem bers makes the council unique in Washington. The council is a Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) cooperatororganization, receiving market development funding through FAS. USFGC also participates in the Market Promotion Program. Corn Exports Exports of com for grain were nearly 1.6-billion bushels (41.09 million metric tons(mmt» in FY-1992. Processed com products flour, gluten feed and meal, grits, hominy, meal, oil and starch in 1991 totaled 7.35 mmt, up from 6.3 mmt in 1989. • One bushel of com yields 3 pounds of com gluten meal. • Com gluten feed exports reached 6.1 mmt in 1991. More than 4 billion bushels of com were processed to produce that amount of com gluten feed. The United States produces 40 percent of the world’s com and supplies more than 67.5 percent of the world’s com exports. Dollar Value of Exports Corn exported for grain in QUALITY QBS® s BINS We Assemble, Deliver & Set-Up Bins On Your Farm WE SHIP UPS _ i mi ft Poultry Systems Specialists pagpi FARMER BOY AG. Sat. 7:30-11:30 410 E. LINCOLN AVE. (RT. 422) . MYERSTOWN. PA 17067 1992 was valued at $4,6 bil lion. Com product exports in 1991 were valued at more than $B7O million. In 1992, 28 percent of all com produced in the United States was exported. Com exported in all forms, including meat products, could reach more than 40 percent of 1992 U.S. production. Balance of Trade Contributions Agriculture is a positive contributor to the balance of trade. While the U.S. non agricultural trade balance has gone from a surplus of about $3 billion in 1960 to a deficit of lowa ST. LOUIS, Mo. The National Com Growers Asso ciation (NCGA) and the National Com Development Foundation (NCDF) have elected a new slate of com growers from seven states to lead their organizations start ing October 1. Pete Wenstrand, a com grower from Essex, lowa, has been elected to serve as NCGA president by its board of direc tors. For the past year. Wen strand has served as NCGA, vice president. He-has also chaired NCGA’s government relations, public relations, and market development committees. During his one-year term as president* Wenstrand said that crafting a 1995 Farm Bill that 717-866-7565 more than $llO billion, U.S. agricultural trade went from a surplus of $5OO million In 1960 to a surplus of $lB.l billion in 1992. U.S. agricultural exports tot aled $42.4 billion in 1992. Com led all agricultural commodities exported in 1992, both in volume and value. Tot al com exports, including com products, could reach nearly $6 billion for FY-1992. Importance of Corn Exports Com is produced in 41 of the 50 states on more than 627,000 farms. Farmer To Head NCGA benefits com growers will rank as a top priority. “With budget constraints, Congress will likely have less money for agriculture,” he said. “We will have to be more creative and efficient in deve loping concepts we want included in the faim bill. We’ll press for policies that increase profitability, conserve natural resources, reduce financial and production risks, and allow our industry to grow.” Out-going NCGA President Randy Cruise, who farms near Pleasanton, Neb., will serve as NCGA chairman. Rod Gangw 24 Hr. Service The export market, averag ing one-fourth of the country’s annual production, is vital to U;S. farm prices. Econometric models state that for every 100-million bushel increase in com exports, price per bushel at the farm increases from 5 to 7 cents. Grain exporters, transportation, production input and market ing industries, as well as rural economies rely on corn exports. The U.S. Feed Grains Coun cil membership is a reflection of that reliance, including seed companies, equipment manu- ish, a Shelton, Neb., com grower, is the newly elected NCGA vice president. Also elected to lead NCGA are Bill Northey, Spirit Lake, lowa, chairman of government relations; Scott Durbin, Owaneco, 111., chairman of market development; Daryl Reid, Macomb. 111., chairman of field services; Wallie Hard ie, Fail-mount, N.D., chairman of research and commercializa tion; Larry Kay, Walnut, lowa, chairman of public relations; Scott Wall, Yuma, Colo., sec- We redesigned the GLEANER® rotary from header to spreader with fewer moving belts and chains. So you get greater reliability and reduced maintenance during harvest. And now, three of four models* offer you an engine choice a high torque rise Cummins diesel or a low maintenance air-cooled Deutz, both loaded with power to spare. Check out the combine that’s built for greater reliability and backed by a strong AGCO warranty and superior service the GLEANER rotary. .Visit your local AGCO GLEANER dealer today. And ask about flexible AGCO financing. 10-9 (DdDIN miLl MIWO PENNSYLVANIA MASTER CORN GROWERS ASSOC., INC. IS GLEANER* lAOCOI facturers, financial institutions, chemical companies, trading and export companies, and pro ducer organizations. Exports means jobs on and off the farm. Each additional $1 billion of U.S. farm exports creates another $1.5 billion of economic activity in the United States. Agricultural exports generate an estimated one mil lion full-time jobs. Most are in assembling, processing and distributing agricultural pro ducts for export. For more information about the importance of com exports, call the USFGC at (202) 789-0789. retary; and Neal Burnett, Plain view, Texas, treasurer. The NCDF directors elected Larry Zabel, a com grower from Dwight, 111, to serve a one-year term as NCDF presi dent. Zabel has previously served terms as NCDF vice president and secretary. Outgo ing NCDF President Marion Hartman of Hillsboro, Ohio, will serve as chairman. 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