18—Com Talc, Lancaatar Firming, Saturday, March 19,1994 Paga Seed Industry Supports Membership Incentive Program f Pennsylvania Master Corn Growers Association National Corn Growers Association 1994 Membership Application Name Address Count Phone Farm Acres New Member PMCGA and NCGA dues for 1994: $25 Special) Three years for $6Ol Make checks payable to; PMCGA Send to: PMCGA P. O. Box 304 State College, PA 16804 Try Something New!! Growers who harvest more than 5 acres of com each year and sign up for a least three year membership qualify to recieve a free unit of seed corn of their choice from the participating seed company listed below: Please indicate your choice if you qualify: Seedway Doebler's Chemgro Hyperformer Funk's G Agway Dekalb NC+ Pioneer <§s|) (|s|) (SOU) (|bJ) :gs£ SSX): SSf H ' TIME TO GO ~ ®I^RSH€V QSSP Hi EQUIPMENT CO. GSI m Corn Acres or Renewal FFICIENT MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES asi m E FACTORY-TRAINED DEALERS ETE LINE OF TOP-QUALITY DRYERS :gbi: ssi. UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.) Cora growers in Pennsylvania can now enjoy the best of both worlds they can join both PMCGA and NCGA and can try some new seed on their farm. The response from seed com suppliers to the ‘Try Some thing New” Membership Incentive Program (MIP) announced recently was over whelming and the Pennsylvani a Master Com Growers Associ ation looks forward to working closely with them to serve com growers in Pennsylvania. ROR Moves DENVER, Colo. “Com growers received the best Val entine possible” when the Clin ton Administration issued the Renewable Oxygenate Requirement (ROR) on Feb. 14, said Eric Vaughn, president and chief executive officer of the Renewable Fuels Associa tion, to attendees of the general session of the National Com Growers Association’s Com Classic, * “This time the Environmen tal Protection Agency (EPA) got it right. If President Clinton POLY TANK REPAIRS welding process we can repair polyethy lene, polypropylene and PVC products. SEALS WITH OMBINAL MATERIAL NO CEMENT USED Call Today for Yoor Plastic Repair Needs DOUBLE I MACHINE SHOP 1024 Gettysburg Pike Mechanicsburg, PA 170 SS (717) 691-7257 Also offering metal parts repair and fabrication Steel, cast and aluminum welding <^sg> :gsi: SYCAMORE IND. PARK 255 PLANE TREE DRIVE LANCASTER. PA 17603 (717) 393-5807 ssi SSf The MIP with seed com company sponsorship will enti tle any com grower who plants at least five acres of com to a free bag of seed com (standard size) with a three-year member ship in PMCGA/NCGA. This program applies to all three year memberships, new or renewal. Each participating seed com company is listed at the bottom of our membership application published in Com Talk. The grower will receive a certificate for a free bag of seed from the Ethanol Into Home Stretch signs the ROR on June 1,1994, “There’s no end to the fantasy we will finally have ethanol in and falsehoods when they talk the mainstream,” said Vaughn, about ethanol.” He credited com producers, Vaughn noted that since who generated 9,628 of the Denver pioneered the concept 10,000 comments received of cleaning the air by cleaning during public hearings, and motor fuel eight years ago, 1 Secretary of Agriculture Mike trillion miles have been driven Espy’s “new sense of commit- with 7.2 billion gallons of etha ment and spirit” for the victory, nol. That translates into a However, Vaughn cau- market for 3,1 billion bushels tioned, “It’s not done, it’s not of com. finished. The oil companies are confident that we’ll quit. They’ll try to wear you down, question yourselves,” he said. IME MPONENTS 10DUCT PPORT SSI Route 30 West at the Centerville Exit. SSf ssi: fj CORN GROWERS SPECIAL 5S £ GSI SS f :qsi: :gsi: Ssf SSf SSf SSI SSI ssi: SSI \6 \ ssi: ssi company chosen from PMCGA. The grower will make the ultimate decision about which hybrid he will receive in consultation with his local dealer. PMCGA will send the names and addresses and telephone numbers to the appropriate seed com company’s state represen tative and they will follow up. Interested com growers should complete the member ship foim immediately and return it to PMCGA headquar ters promtly along with a check to cover membership dues. If the ROR is signed in June, what Vaughn called the “Mid western ROR (Roar)” will increase com prices by 20 cents per bushel, improve farm revenue by $1.5 billion, reduce farm program costs, lower con sumer costs by $450 million per year and cut the trade defi cit by $6OO million.
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