A32*Lancastar Farming, Saturday, May 13, 2000 Guest speaker Bill Robinson of Kreamer Feeds, second from left, joins these Poultry Science Club members who won special awards Josh Elliot as most active new member, Heather Lehman for the club’s highest grade point average, and Tom Karr for the highest grade point average in the poultry science major and the most active club member. Checkoff Dollars Harvest Springtime Results research and development dol lars private companies reinvest in new products, markets, and processes. Farmers in 19 states have established programs to pool money generated by col lecting a fraction of a cent per bushel on each bushel sold. The resulting fund is managed by a board of farmers. In some cases the money is pooled into bigger projects at national level through the National Com Growers Association (NCGA). In other cases, the farmers at state level chose to fund projects and activities within each state. “Besides encouraging Cargill Dow and helping the company seek funding through Depart ment of Commerce grants, NCGA invested check off dol lars from farmers to fund basic research to get things going. And, Cargill helped us evaluate research opportunities,” said Lee Klein, the NCGA president elect and a farmer from Battle Creek, Neb., referring to the new PLA plant development. “NCGA members and all com growers who pay the checkoff can take pride that their dollars funded the research that has led to this new facility. Since 1994, Randall G. Renninger ST. LOUIS (Mo.) U.S. corn growers don’t harvest a crop in April. But during the last week of April, corn growers began harvesting a crop of new corn marketing opportunities that had been planted and nurtured with grower checkoff funds. 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