NCGA Supports Pilot
Program On Wetlands
NCGA sent a letter to
Sens. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.)
and Tim Johnson (D-S.D.)
Sept. 22 supporting a pilot
program for the Prairie
Pothole region that would
allow small farmed wetlands
to be enrolled in the Conser
vation Reserve Program
(CRP) under the continuous
sign-up.
These small farmed wet
lands are areas typically ad
jacent to buffer strips, but yet
have not been eligible for the
continuous sign-up. This
pilot program would make a
“technical fix” to allow the
enrollment of this land.
This program would be in
place over the next two years
and work within the existing
CRP cap of 36.4 million
acres.
NCGA believes that it is
important to give growers the
flexibility to participate in
government conservation
programs and this legislation
would provide a much
needed option for growers in
the prairie pothole region.
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NCGA Leaders Meet With
Other Farm Group Heads
NCGA President Lynn
Jensen and CEO Rick
Tolman joined other farm
group leaders in Washington
Sept. 20 at an agricultural
commodity roundtable meet
ing hosted by the American
Farm Bureau Federation.
These periodic meetings
are designed to give the heads
of the nation’s major agricul
tural organizations an oppor
tunity to build relationships
and share information on the
major issues of the day.
Discussions at this week’s
meeting focused on interna
tional trade, agricultural re
search, environmental issues,
and the 2002 Farm Bill.
Public Policy Team Takes
Its Show To The Quad Cities
Members of NCGA’s
Public Policy Action Team
discussed the future of farm
policy with grower leaders
from lowa and Illinois Sept.
14. Their meeting in Moline,
111., was the fourth in a series
of state visits that the action
team has made as part of
NCGA’s Farm Bill “discov-
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Corn Growers Recognize
Getty’s Support Of Ethanol
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Getty Petroleum Marketing,
Inc. was recently honored by
the nation’s corn growers for
using renewable, environ
mentally friendly ethanol in
the gasoline it sells at about
1,300 stations in 12 Northeast
and Mid-Atlantic states.
National Corn Growers
Association (NCGA) Presi
dent Lynn Jensen presented
his organization’s annual
President’s Award to Getty
Chairman and CEO Leo
Liebowitz during the Com
modity Classic in Orlando.
“A satisfied customer is
the best advertisement for
ethanol. The fact that one of
the nation’s largest inde
pendent gasoline marketers
is successfully blending it into
all of their gasoline is a testa-
ery process.”
As NCGA begins develop
ing policy recommendations
for the 2002 Farm Bill, the
action team is visiting various
states in order to gain better
perspective on regional farm
policy differences. More than
20 grower leaders and action
team members participated
in the session.
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ment to ethanol’s economic
and environmental benefits,”
Jensen said.
Oxygenates such as
ethanol or methyl tertiary
butyl ether (MTBE) are
blended with gasoline to help
it burn more cleanly and
reduce air pollution. Petrole
um-based MTBE has been
the oxygenate of choice out
side the Corn Belt. But it has
recently been found polluting
water supplies from Maine to
California, raising wide
spread concern about its en
vironment and health effects.
“We’re honoring Getty for
proactively choosing the sen
sible alternative: clean
burning, corn-based
ethanol,” said Jensen. “This
is certainly good for corn
growers. But, more import-
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Getty has promoted its
switch from MTBE to
ethanol by hanging banners
at its stations, distributing in
formational brochures to
consumers, placing full-page
ads in major newspapers, and
including information on its
web site (www.getty.com).
Through these efforts, the
company educates millions of
consumers a month about
ethanol’s benefits.
“Getty’s success with
ethanol-blended gasoline
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other refiners and blenders.
Ethanol can and should be
the oxygenate of choice in
clean-burning gasoline na
tionwide,” Jensen said.
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