March 9, 2024

IN THIS ISSUE

CCPC Supports Radical Corn Value Chain Challenge
Register Today for the Trade Policy Academy
Cultivating Conversations with Barn Media
Take the CCPC Annual Survey
Citizen Advocate Webinar: How to Research a Lawmaker and Create a Representative Profile
Corn Congress Ratifies NCGA Strategic Plan, Heightening Focus on Demand Building and Positioning Organization for Future Service to Growers
Pesticide Applicator Continuing Education

CCPC Supports Radical Corn Value Chain Challenge

Radicle Growth, a company-building platform investing in early-stage agriculture and food technologies, is delighted to announce, “The Radicle Corn Value Chain Challenge sponsored by US Corn Farmers.” The Challenge sets out to invest a minimum of US $1.5M in start-up and growth companies from around the world whose innovative technologies and business models create new uses for corn and long-term sustainable demand for corn production. These companies are expected to be developing new uses of corn that result in replacements for fossil fuel-derived materials with plant-derived materials such as sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), drop-in chemicals and plastics, compostable materials, and as yet unidentified products and product categories that could be new areas for corn-derived products to be used.

“Amidst the burgeoning expansion of the corn industry nationwide, projections anticipate a rise in surplus corn carryout. The Radicle Corn Value Chain Challenge presents an opportunity to pioneer inventive applications for this surplus, potentially opening up novel revenue avenues for corn farmers,” stated Matt Mulch, President of the Colorado Corn Promotion Council and a seasoned farmer hailing from Burlington, Colorado. “Through a commitment to innovation and fostering demand, we can safeguard the sustained profitability of American corn producers while bolstering the nation’s economic prosperity. The CCPC is proud to support this challenge.”

Register Today for the Trade Policy Academy

Register Today for the Trade Policy Academy, which will be held next week! The trade school aims to demonstrate the importance of trade to the agriculture industry and farmers’ profitability; connects topics in the news to the systems and structures of trade; and offers training on how participants can talk about trade issues in their communities.

The key message for participants is simple but not easy: trade policy and market development lead to sales.

Date: March 14, 2024

Time: 8:30am - 4:00 pm

Location: Northeastern Junior College (NJC) - Sterling, Colorado

Reception to be held March 13 at 5:30pm

Registration Form: https://bit.ly/CCPCTradeSchool24

Questions: Contact Ellen Zimmerman at ezimmerman@grains.org or 202-794-0455

Cultivating Conversations with Barn Media

CCPC Executive Director Nicholas Colglazier spoke with Tucker Allmer of Barn Media about all things corn. He gave an update on what's new with the CCPC and talked about the upcoming Trade Policy Academy.

Listen to it here!

Take the CCPC Annual Survey

The Colorado Corn Promotion Council is funded from the checkoff collected on bushels of corn grown and sold in Colorado. It engages in research,communication/outreach, issues and engagement,and market development efforts to improve the profitability of Colorado’s corn industry.

The feedback you provide is confidential and anonymous. Please return your completed survey by April 30, 2024. If you have any questions, feel

free to contact us. Thank you!

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Citizen Advocate Webinar: How to Research a Lawmaker and Create a Representative Profile

Despite the narrative presented by Hollywood and the media, lawmakers are people too. Before being elected, they had careers, attended schools and universities, or volunteered in their community. This presentation will explain how the best citizen advocates research their Members of Congress; use their Members' profiles to map personal or professional connections to their lawmakers; adjust their communications with those Members; and connect the dots between issues advocates care about to those that their Members care about.

This program is based on exclusive and private surveys of congressional staff conducted by CMF and is available only to members of CMF's Partnership for a More Perfect Union. The webinar will be conducted by Bradford Fitch, President and CEO of CMF.

Date: March 19, 2024 at 1:00 PM MST

Corn Congress Ratifies NCGA Strategic Plan, Heightening Focus on Demand Building and Positioning Organization for Future Service to Growers

The National Corn Growers Association’s Corn Congress recently ratified a new strategic plan for the organization, modernizing its objectives and positioning the organization to focus on increasing corn demand. The vote to approve the new plan came on Saturday as Corn Congress concluded its meeting in Houston, Texas.

Pesticide Applicator Continuing Education

Mountain West Pesticide Education & Safety Training (PEST) is happy to announce pesticide applicator recertification workshops around Colorado this upcoming training season. All of these workshops provide ALL seven required core credits. The workshops are open to both private and commercial applicators as well as applicator technicians. If you are a commercial applicator and need category credits, please contact MWPEST.

Workshops are posted at http://www.mountainwestpest.com/continuing-education.html

UPCOMING DEADLINES

None at this time

UPCOMING EVENTS

March 13: CCPC Board Meeting
March 13: Trade School Reception
March 14: Trade School

Who is the Colorado Corn Council?

The Colorado Corn Promotion Council (CCPC) oversees how Colorado's corn check-off dollars (one penny per bushel of grain corn produced in Colorado) are invested in research, market development, outreach and other various endeavors.

Learn more about the work of our organization at www.coloradocorn.com.

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