Price-Sensitive Com Growers to Pursue Grassroots Trade Campaign
DENVER, Colo. - The
National Corn Growers
Association (NCGA) met here
last week to discuss four seri
ous "can'ts" confronting com
growers preparing for this
fall's harvest: can't sell, can't
export, can't ship, and can't
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Com Growers nationwide
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* near record-low com pieces,
drops in world demand for
U.S. com, high carry over
stocks, and worrisome fore
casts that critical rail trans
portation will be unable to
meet harvest shipping
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NCGA's Corn Congress
met Aug. 27-28 to determine
immediate action growers
nationwide should take to
deliver a .strong and clear
message regarding global
competitiveness and trade
concerns which impact grow
er profitability to political
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NCGA will coordinate a
comprehensive grassroots
campaign to address these
critical shortfalls. "NCGA's
strategy is to call for impor
tant legislative and policy
solutions that can remedy
current low price concerns,"
said NCGA President Ryland
Utlaut from Grand Pass, Mo.
Trade policy, according to
Utlaut, is a top priority that
Washington must address
immediately if farmers are to
survive globally. "Since last
fall, com exports for the 1997
crop have fallen 550 million
bushels, which significantly
was also when Congress
failed to pass fast track
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President to negotiate new,
better agreements," noted
Utlaut.
Without fast track author
ity, most nations will not
negotiate with the United
States for fear they will then
have to go back and renegoti
ate with the entire Congress.
"I don't blame them. The fact
of the matter is that our
bread and butter is linked to
international trade," Utlaut
said, "If we are locked out of
foreign markets, or if inter
national monetary conditions
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keep our product uncompeti
tive, then com growers are
left twisting in the wind."
NCGA's immediate priori
ty is to influence Congress
and responsible government
agencies to pursue sound and
strong trade policy objectives,
which include:
•Passage of fast track and
International Monetary Fund
(IMF) support which are both
scheduled for deliberation in
late September.
•Meaningful trade
sanctions reform,
streamlining biotech
trade approval poli
cies, World Trade
Organization (WTO)
negotiations, Foreign
Market Development
(FMD) and Market
Access Program
(MAP) funding.
•Equally sound
and strong domestic
solutions like crop
insurance reform,
flexible loan policy
and Loan Deficiency
Payments (LDPS) to
provide more timely
relief.
•In the area of
grain transportation,
NCGA is calling for
enactment of a
Federal Emergency
Preparedness Plan,
emergency repeal of
the Jones Act, passage
of the Water Resources
Development Act
(WRDA), and close
monitoring of the
nation's railroads to
ensure adequate ser
vice.
"This ambitious
plan takes advan
tage of our proven
grass-roots capabili
ty, but we can't do it
alone," said Utlaut.
"The outcome great-
of these work
' shops. Upon comple
tion, it will become a
"living" document,
that can change and
grow as new discov
eries and
breakthroughs are
made.
The final step will
the be actual
research and busi
ness development
efforts that will
make renewable
technologies and
products a reality.
For more infor
mation on the
Renewable Vision or
a copy 2020 or a copy
of the "Plant/Crop-
Based Renewable
Resources 2020" doc
ument, contract the
NCGA at (314) 275-
9915 or visit its web
site at
http://www.ncga.com
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