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
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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
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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
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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-
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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.
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The NCDF directors elected
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from Dwight, 111, to serve a
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dent. Zabel has previously
served terms as NCDF vice
president and secretary. Outgo
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Hartman of Hillsboro, Ohio,
will serve as chairman. Other
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Smith, Minden, tyeb., vice
president; Ruth Gerdes,
Auburn, Neb., secretary; and
Darrel Kammeyer, Manito, 111,
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