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ByMatt Reese David Miller from Fairfield County
and his son, Jon, got their seats early for the general session at Commodity Classic held in Nashville this year. The then half- empty auditorium sprawled out in every direction from their seats near the center of the room. “I can remember when this was just
the corn growers and we’d only need a quarter of this room for everyone to sit in,” David said. “This event has really grown since those days.” Now, the Commodity Classic is shat-
tering attendance records with more than 6,000 participants gathering for the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), the American Soybean Association (ASA), the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG), and the National Sorghum Producers (NSP) meeting to set policy and learn at a wide array of sessions and events. And, soon enough, the wisdom of the Millers finding seats early was revealed as the steady crowd filtered in to fill the chairs. Once the event started, stragglers were standing around the side and the back walls of the massive room for the general session, which did not disappoint.
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MC Mark Mayfield opened the presi-
dents’ roundtable during the general ses- sion by conducting brief interviews with the leaders of the four crop commodity organizations. “Looking out at this audience, you
can see that it is all about families for farmers,” said Garry Niemeyer, NCGA President Niemeyer, a farmer from Auburn, Ill. “At NCGA, we are working constantly to ensure that our children have the freedom to continue our farm- ing tradition. Right now, we are actively pushing forward through four major educational campaigns including the Corn Farmers Coalition, CommonGround, the American Ethanol- NASCAR partnership and the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance. While each program seeks to reach a specific office, from bringing the facts about farmers to Capitol Hill to starting con- versations about food between urban and farm moms, NCGA actively culti- vates an understanding that ensures the broader cultural understanding of and appreciation for agriculture.” ASA president Steve Wellman pointed
out the importance of biotechnology in moving crop production to where it is today and where it needs to be in the future.
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Farmers find plenty to talk about at Commodity Classic
This year’s Commodity Classic shattered attendance records with more than 6,000 participants gathering for the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), the American Soybean Association (ASA), the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG), and the National Sorghum Producers (NSP) meeting to set policy for the year.
“We’ve already had a lot of popula-
tion growth and the answer is increas- ing production efficiency to meet the growing demand,” Wellman said. “The key to moving forward is biotechnolo- gy and we need to work on the global
approval process.” NAWG president Wayne Hurst
talked about the need for an improved regulatory environment.
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