ST. LOUIS, Mo. A
“Rocky Mountain High”
awaits the 2,000-plus com
growers and industry leaders
expected to attend the National
Com Growers Association’s
(NCGA) 1994 Com Classic in
Denver, Colo., Feb. 27 - March
1.
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City gives farmers and their
families the unique opportunity
to reap the benefits of Com
Classic and enjoy some of the
finest snow-skiing in the coun
try,” said Scott Wall, a Yuma
County, Colo., com grower
and Com Gassic chairman.
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speaker on Monday, February
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NCGA Calls For
7.5 Percent Corn
Reduction For 1994
ST. LOUIS. Mo. —The National Com
Growers Association (NCGA) recently
recommended to the United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA) that
the acreage reduction program (ARP)
percentage for the 1994 com crop be set at
7.5 percent.
The recommendation was made in a
letter from NCGA President Randy
Cruise, a Pleasanton, Neb., com fanner.
NCGA’s recommendation is based on
current estimates of the 1993 production
and anticipated demand for the 1993 and
1994 marketing years. The latest USDA
estimate of the 1993 com crop is 7.23 bil
lion bushels, but Cruise pointed out that
this year’s crop may face a great deal of
uncertainty at this time.
One example is the com crop’s vulner
ability to frost damage because of late
planting and unusually cool temperatures
throughout most of the growing season.
“We would expect the Secretary to
make necessary adjustments to the preli
minary program announcement to reflect
significant changes in the total supply of
feed grains,” Cruise wrote.
If 1993 production is close to current
estimates, NCGA predicts a 7.S percent
ARP will result in sufficient com produc
tion to meet likely demand without
unnecessarily adding to stocks.
“Farmers are frustrated by cash com
prices that are virtually unchanged from a
year ago when com production was 2.25
billion bushels higher,” Cruise wrote.
Record com production last year kept
cash prices from rising this summer. If
1994 production adds to carryover stocks,
it will not only weaken 1994 com prices,
but also 1995 and 1996. prices. Cruise
predicts.
“Fanners cannot profitably compete at
today’s low com prices and cannot afford
to produce surplus com which has a price
depressing impact,” Cruise wrote.
Other recommendations announced by
NCGA recently to support com farmer
profitability include:
• USDA should make SO percent of the
projected deficiency payment available at
sign-up in order to help producers who
lost crops and income potential this year
to finance their 1994 crop.
• USDA should establish a marketing
loan for cofn at no less than the basic loan
rate, which NCGA estimates to be $1.98
per bushel, to assure a competitive posi
tion for U.S. com while providing income
support for producers.
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