NAMA News March 2009
Inside this Issue
- NAMA Leadership/Executive Committee Meetings – May 20-21
- 2009 Division Meeting presentations available online
- Panel projects decline in soft red winter wheat crop for 2009
- NAMA nominates Cole to CFTC subcommittee
- 34 economic sectors support straightforward security bill, oppose disruptive riders
- Registration now open for the 50th Annual Corn Dry Milling Conference
- Invitation to participate in wheat tours
- People in the news
- Conference calendar
NAMA Leadership/Executive Committee Meetings
May 20-21
Invitations to participate in the Leadership Meeting have been extended to NAMA Board members or their alternates. This is an opportunity for the leadership of NAMA to bring a real-life perspective on our issues to lawmakers and regulatory officials.
Meetings are scheduled with Obama Administration officials, Senate and House committee staffs, and associations or organizations on topics of current interest to NAMA members. Participants are also encouraged to visit the offices of their Congressional representatives. To register for the meeting, contact NAMA president Betsy Faga at bfaga@namamillers.org.
The Executive Committee will meet on May 21 from 8:30 am - 12:30 pm.
2009 Division Meeting presentations available online
190 milling members, associate members and industry allies attended NAMA's 2009 Division Meetings held at the Sanibel Harbour Resort & Spa in Fort Myers, Florida.
Speaker presentations are available online at http://www.namamillers.org/2009_Div_Presentations.html. Some of the files are large and will take up to 10 minutes to download. Once you see the presentation on your computer screen, save it to your desktop and open it from there to get the best quality.
Panel projects decline in soft red winter wheat crop for 2009
At an annual meeting of soft wheat millers, a soft wheat crop forecast panel told attendees that the projection for soft red winter wheat production in 2009 is 407,211,000 bushels, down 206,367,000 bushels, or 34%, from 613,578,000 bushels last year.
The panel projected soft white winter wheat production in 2009 at 193,234,000 bushels, down 3,126,000 bushels, or 2%, from 196,360,000 bushels in 2008. Get the numbers at http://www.namamillers.org/2009DivHandouts/cropforecast.pdf.
NAMA nominates Cole to CFTC subcommittee
NAMA nominated Rick Cole, General Mills, Inc., to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Subcommittee on Convergence in Agricultural Commodity Markets. Cole has more than 30 years experience executing futures contracts as a grain buyer for General Mills. Read the nomination letter at http://www.namamillers.org/NewsArchives09/ColeNomination.html.
34 economic sectors support straightforward security bill,
oppose disruptive riders
In a letter to Congress, 34 organizations, including NAMA, support re-authorization of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program and oppose provisions that would disrupt the work that regulated entities have done to comply with the current regulations. Congress is required to reauthorize the chemical security legislation even though the existing legislation has not been fully enacted. Read the letter to Congress at http://www.namamillers.org/NewsArchives09/LtrCongress030209.html.
Registration now open for the
50th Annual Corn Dry Milling Conference
NAMA’s Corn Dry Milling Conference will be held June 18, 2009 in Peoria, Illinois. It is jointly sponsored with USDA’s National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research. In a revised format, the conference will feature one whole-day session on June 18. NAMA members will meet the night before over dinner. Invited to attend the conference are corn millers, corn seed producers, those involved in food corn product manufacturing and sales, and agricultural engineers dealing in the production, handling, storage and processing of corn products for food. The conference will conclude with a special recognition of the conference’s 50th anniversary at a reception and dinner for conference attendees.
Registration information is on NAMA’s web site at http://www.namamillers.org/2009_CDMC.html.
Invitation to participate in wheat tours
The Wheat Quality Council has invited interested parties to participate in wheat tours starting May 4 and July 27. The tours are for three days and offer participants the opportunity to acquire fundamental wheat industry knowledge. The first is a hard winter wheat tour in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Oklahoma. Register before April 13. The second is a hard spring wheat and durum tour in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota. Register before July 2. The cost is $200 for Wheat Quality Council members and university/government personnel and $250 for all others. To register, please contact Ben Handcock at the Wheat Quality Council, 605.224.5187 or bhwqc@aol.com.
People in the news
Virgil Smail, former president of the American Institute of Baking in Manhattan, Kansas, has been named the first executive director of the new United Sorghum Checkoff Program. Smail also has headed research and development for ConAgra Foods’ milling division, the National Association of Wheat Growers Foundation and Kansas State’s Grain and Science Industry Department.
Conference calendar
2009 Leadership Meeting, Washington, DC
The Liaison Hotel
May 20-21, 2009
50th Annual Corn Dry Milling Conference, East Peoria, IL
Hotel Pere Marquette
June 17-18, 2009
2009 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
Sofitel Lafayette Square Hotel
October 19-21, 2009
2010 Division Meetings, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
W Fort Lauderdale
March 20-23, 2010
2010 Annual Meeting, Del Mar, CA
L'Auberge Del Mar Resort
October 14-16, 2010
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