NGFA’s current Committee Apprentice Program (CAP) class participated in two days of virtual meetings with NGFA staff, government agencies and lawmakers this week. April 20-21 marked the annual “CAP D.C. Experience,” during which CAPs advocate for NGFA priority issues with lawmakers and their staff and visit with staff from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and other relevant agencies. Keynote speakers kicked off each day of meetings by addressing the full group of CAPs. Speakers included Eyang Garrison, chief of ... Read More
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NGFA finalizes new Climate Change and Sustainability Task Force
To assist NGFA in addressing the significant issues of climate change and sustainability, NGFA Chairman JoAnn Brouillette has appointed the following individuals to serve on the newly created Climate Change and Sustainability Task Force: Fernando Adler, head of Gradable Commercial Services, an FBN Company Meg Belcher, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, Scoular Jay Burns, sustainability ambassador, COFCO INTL Ben Fargher, managing director of sustainability, Cargill North America Supply Chain Mark Hobrock, senior profit center manager, The ... Read More
NGFA members elect officers and new directors
ARLINGTON, Va., March 31, 2021 – The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) announced today that its members re-elected JoAnn Brouillette, president and managing partner of Demeter LP in Fowler, Ind., as NGFA Chairman. NGFA distributed a ballot on March 15 to member companies eligible to vote (Active and Affiliated Association Members) for the election of NGFA’s Board of Directors and industry officers and the ratification of amendments to NGFA’s Bylaws, Trade Rules and Arbitration Rules. Ballots were due on March 26. Election of NGFA Officers and ... Read More
NGFA declares opening of Mid-Mississippi River
Pursuant to the NGFA Trade Rules, NGFA has declared that the Mid-Mississippi River opened for navigation as of 7 a.m. on Monday, March 29, 2021. NGFA Barge Freight Trading Rule 18(J) provides as follows: “The Dubuque and South (Mid-Mississippi) opening commences the first 07:00 hours of the first business day after the first empty dry cargo covered barge suitable for loading, originating at or below Winfield, Mo., reaches Dubuque, Iowa. The Mid-Miss opening shall be determined by a majority vote of a three-person committee appointed by the NGFA Chairman and shall be announced by publishing ... Read More
NGFA 2020-21 Annual Report now available
NGFA’s 2020-21 Annual Report covers the time between the start of the association’s fiscal year in February 2020 and the start of 2021. The Annual Report, which documents challenges and accomplishments that encompass multiple facets of NGFA’s wide-ranging portfolio, now is available to read and download on ngfa.org. The National Grain and Feed Foundation has its own 2020-21 Annual Report, which highlights featured and ongoing projects and donors. The Foundation 2020-21 Annual Report can be found at ngfa.org/foundation. ... Read More
NGFA announces Michael Seyfert as new president, CEO
ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 4, 2021 – The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) today announced that Michael J. Seyfert will become its new president and chief executive officer. Seyfert is scheduled to become NGFA’s top executive staff officer on March 1, succeeding Randy Gordon, who will retire by the end of March after serving nearly 43 years with the nation’s largest and most diverse agribusiness association – the last eight as its president and CEO. In so doing, Seyfert will become only the seventh person to serve in that capacity at NGFA since its founding in 1896. “We couldn’t be ... Read More
Lacy Holleman joins NGFA staff as manager of legal affairs and arbitration
NGFA is pleased to announce the hiring of Lacy Holleman to the newly created staff position of manager of legal affairs and arbitration. She joined the staff on Nov. 30. The new position was established in part to provide additional staff support for one of NGFA’s premier member services – its more than century-old system of trade rules and arbitration that facilitates the efficient marketing of grains, oilseeds and their derived products, and resolves trade disputes in a timely and transparent manner. She also will work on contracting, legal and other matters. In addition, ... Read More
New members appointed to NGFA Board, Executive Committee
NGFA Chairman JoAnne Brouillette, under authority provided by NGFA’s Bylaws, has appointed two new members to fill vacancies on the NGFA Board of Directors. The newly appointed Board members are: Matt Ashton, chief executive officer of New Vision Cooperative, Brewster, Minn. Ashton previously served on the NGFA Board while serving as senior vice president for grain at Central Valley Cooperative in York, Neb.; and Dawn Caldwell, head of governmental affairs for Aurora Cooperative, Aurora, Neb. Caldwell also serves on NGFA’s International Trade/Agricultural Policy Committee. Also ... Read More
Difficult harvest looms after derecho hits Midwest
By Sarah Gonzalez, Director of Communications and Digital Media Estimates suggest 43 percent of Iowa’s 2020 corn and soybean crop has been damaged or destroyed by the derecho storm system that plowed through extensive areas of the Midwest on Aug. 10, destroying crops, buildings and grain storage structures across Iowa and neighboring states ahead of harvest. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service announced Aug. 12 that its Sept. 11 Crop Report will include additional survey work, as well as satellite-based assessments of the extent of crop damage ... Read More
National Grain and Feed Digital Solutions to host free preview of Barge Digital Transformation (BDT) platform on Aug. 6
ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 4, 2020 -- The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA), its new affiliated organization – National Grain and Feed Digital Solutions (NGFDS) – and technology provider essDOCS will host a preview of the widely-anticipated Barge Digital Transformation (BDT) platform on Aug. 6. NGFA announced its official partnership with NGFDS to oversee the BDT project on July 14. The BDT project is the massive undertaking underway to provide a platform to digitize the current time-consuming, inefficient and costly paperwork-intensive processes ... Read More
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