February 24, 2024

IN THIS ISSUE

• CCPC Attends the USGC Conference in Guatemala City
• CCPC Partners with USGC, NCGA to Host Trade School
• CCPC Annual Report Now Available
• Take the CCPC Annual Survey
• Citizen Advocate Webinar: How to Research a Lawmaker and Create a Representative Profile
• Corn Growers Welcome Decision by EPA on Access to Year-Round E15 While Calling for Legislation to Eliminate Nationwide Patchwork on Ethanol
• Breaking Down 5 Projections in the USDA 2024 Corn Outlook
• Pesticide Applicator Continuing Education

CCPC Attends the USGC Conference in Guatemala City

U.S. Grains Council (USGC) members touched down last week for the 21st International Marketing Conference and 64th Annual Membership Meeting in Guatemala City for the first time since the meeting was held there in 2009.

The event provides members with an overview of the Council’s strategy for the coming year and includes several Advisory Team (A-Team) sessions, where experts in various agricultural commodities and markets come together to conduct market and commodity-specific deep-dives and share experiences relevant to their industry for this year.

CCPC Executive Director Nicholas Colglazier, board member Jeremy Fix and corn producer (and past board member) Mike Lefever attended the conference. Mike was also recognized for his five years of service to the organization.

Jeremy Fix participated in an interview with Lorrie Boyer of 1010KSIR while in Guatemala. Listen to it here.

Learn more about the trip:

• USGC Members, Staff Arrive In Guatemala For 21st International Marketing Conference, 64th Annual Membership Meeting
• USGC Winter Meeting Kicks Off With Speakers On Latin American Grain, Biofuel Markets
• USGC Winter Meeting Concludes With Board Of Delegates Meeting, New Organization Bylaws

CCPC Partners with USGC, NCGA to Host Trade School

The CCPC is excited to announce that we have partnered with the U.S. Grains Council and the National Corn Growers Association to host a Trade Policy Academy (Trade School) in March. Details are below.

Colorado Trade School:

Date: March 13 - Reception

March 14 - Academy to take place 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Location: Sterling, Colorado

*Please sign up by March 6 so we can get an accurate headcount for meals.

Registration Form: https://forms.gle/RHe1VoFcixvVhK5z6

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

CCPC Annual Report Now Available

Our 2022/2023 Annual Report is now available! Check out our highlights from the last year, as well as some of the programs we fund.

Read 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! 

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 

Register Here

Corn Growers Welcome Decision by EPA on Access to Year-Round E15 While Calling for Legislation to Eliminate Nationwide Patchwork on Ethanol

The Environmental Protection Agency announced on February 22 that it will grant the request by eight Midwestern governors to allow the year-round sale of fuel with a 15% ethanol blend, or E15, in their states beginning in the summer of 2025.

The announcement was welcomed by the National Corn Growers Association, which has been fighting to break down barriers to the environmentally friendly biofuels.

“We are glad to hear this decision from EPA, as it puts us on the road to providing more certainty to America’s corn growers and consumers who will save money at the pump,” said NCGA President and Minnesota Farmer Harold Wolle. “However, given that this decision will not take effect until the summer of 2025, we question and are concerned about the implications of the timeline for growers and consumers this summer.”

Read more....

Breaking Down 5 Projections in the USDA 2024 Corn Outlook

USDA released the Grains and Oilseeds Outlook this week providing an initial look at the 2024/25 marketing year projections that include lower production, greater domestic use, increased exports, and higher ending stocks as compared to the current 2023/24 market years.

Click here for a summary and some additional context for five projections from the latest outlook.

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