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Department of Energy
Awards Project
ST. LOUIS, Mo. The
National Corn Growers
Association (NCGA) recently
announced that com growers’
checkoff investments in
research have paid off with a
Department of Energy grant
totaling $889,632 for the
development of new uses for
this country’s number one
crop - com.
This grant, made through
DOE’s Renewable Resources
Vision 2020, is for a three
year program of process
development and commer
cialization of polyols, value
added chemicals made from
com.
The current polyols mar
ket would require 250 million
bushels of com to supply the
total domestic demand for
these valuable polyol com
pounds: ethylene glycol
(antifreeze); propylene glycol
(aircraft deicing fluid); and
glycerol (ingredients for per
sonal care products and pre
pared foods). The next gener
ation of these catalysts to
make other chemicals,
beyond polyols, could
increase the demand for com
three or four fold, perhaps as
much as an additional billion
bushels, in the next 10 years.
“This research represents
substantial - and very real
commercial value for all com
growers.” said NCGA Com
Board member Bob Boeding
of Lawler, lowa. “And it is
made possible by their check
off investments.”
The DOE grant will enable
NCGA and its partners, the
pacific Northwest National
Laboratory of Richland,
Wash., and Michigan State
University. East Lansing,
Mich., to develop research
resulting in corn-based com
modity chemicals that are
highly valuable and commer
cially competitive without the
need for government subsi
dies.
Boeding noted that this is
“the very kind of public/pri
vate partnership that NCGA
referred to in our comments
made at the recent executive
order signing by President
Clinton on bio-fuels and bio
energy.” In those comments,
NCGA President Roger Pine
said that more partnerships
among agriculture, industry
and government are needed
in order to meet the challenge
of creating security for the
United States in the 21st
Century.
“NCGA com growers have
been steadfast in gaining this
kind of recognition for the
research process they have
developed,” Boeding said. “It
reflects on state Com Grower
and NCGA efforts to leverage
growers’ checkoff dollar
investments.”
The DOE grant is a
“matching funds grant,”
meaning com growers must
match this amount with a
minimum equal amount of
funds and in-kind efforts.
“It is the intent of NCGA
to develop com grower own
ership potential in this (poly
ols) commercialization pro
ject and to be benefit from the
investment for years to
come,” Boeding said. “This
success can only be realized if
corn growers continue to
shape their destiny by invest
ing checkoff funds in projects
which expand and build
potential markets for com.”
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