ARLINGTON, Va., July 29, 2020 — The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) commended the House today for passing by a unanimous voice vote the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2020 (H.R. 7575). The House bill includes two key NGFA priorities – an increase in the federal share of the funding for inland waterways projects and full use of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF). “To maintain American agriculture’s competitive transportation advantage against other countries, stakeholders must relentlessly make the case for continued investment in U.S. waterways ... Read More
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NGFA partners with new NGFDS to digitize barge industry transactions
ARLINGTON, Va., July 14, 2020 -- The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) today announced its official partnership with a new affiliated organization – National Grain and Feed Digital Solutions (NGFDS) – to oversee the widely anticipated new Barge Digital Transformation (BDT) platform. The BDT project is the massive undertaking underway to digitize the current time-consuming, inefficient and costly paperwork-intensive processes common in the barge trade. In particular, the new platform is expected to digitize the approximated 70,000 to 100,000 negotiable barge bills of lading ... Read More
NGFA announces impending retirement of President/CEO Randy Gordon
…Search for successor underway… ARLINGTON, Va., July 13, 2020 – The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) today announced the impending retirement of its president and chief executive officer, Randy Gordon, which will occur following the association’s 125th annual convention in March 2021. At that time, Gordon will have served nearly 43 years in various executive capacities at NGFA, most recently as the organization’s chief executive staff officer since 2012. “It has been an honor and inspiration to work nearly my entire professional career at NGFA,” Gordon said. “The noble ... Read More
NGFA commends, congratulates U.S., Mexico and Canada on entry-into-force of USMCA
ARLINGTON, Va., July 1, 2020 – The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) said the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which enters into force today, is a model 21st century trade accord that will contribute to growing, robust North American trade and serve as a strong foundation for the next generation of trade agreements. NGFA commended and congratulated the U.S., Mexican and Canadian governments for negotiating a modernized North American trade agreement, as well as the legislative chambers in all three countries that ratified it by strong, bipartisan votes. For grains, oilseeds ... Read More
NGFA and NAEGA support U.S. Grain Standards Reauthorization Act of 2020
ARLINGTON, Va., June 23, 2020 -- The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) and North American Export Grain Association (NAEGA) today said they strongly support legislation that would reauthorize and improve the U.S. Grain Standards Act. The Senate Agriculture Committee will consider the bill reauthorizing the U.S. Grain Standards Reauthorization Act for another five years during a June 24 business meeting. The Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) establishes official marketing standards for grains and oilseeds under the authorization ... Read More
NGFA, ag groups, urge congressional support of FARM to TABLE Act
ARLINGTON, Va., June 9, 2020 -- The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) and more than 60 other organizations urged members of Congress to support a bill that would help the nation’s agricultural suppliers, producers and transporters by ensuring hours-of-service rules for agricultural haulers are consistent throughout the year and across state lines. The “FARM to TABLE Act,” introduced by Rep. John Joyce, R-Pa., would help make the agricultural exception to the federal hours-of-service rules more widely available by making it available year-round and providing clarity with ... Read More
NGFA urges STB to require RRs to report additional info on demurrage invoices
ARLINGTON, Va., June 8, 2020 – The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) is urging the federal Surface Transportation Board (STB) to require the nation’s largest railroads to provide additional information to rail customers so they can better verify the accuracy of carriers’ demurrage bills. In a statement submitted to the agency on June 5, NGFA stressed that Class I railroads’ invoices for demurrage and accessorial charges frequently are inaccurate, and impose “burdensome, tedious, time-consuming and costly efforts” on behalf of rail customers to investigate and ... Read More
NGFA submits statement to CFTC on speculative position limits rule
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 18, 2020 -- The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) on May 15 submitted its official statement to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on the agency’s latest attempt to implement speculative position limits across a range of commodities and futures contracts. The commission has attempted several times previously – during the almost 10 years since the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation became law – to finalize rules for position limits. The NGFA has worked closely with CFTC over the years to resolve contentious issues that existed in earlier ... Read More
USDA’s final rule for regulating biotech products lacks adequate market transparency
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 15, 2020 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) finalized rule for regulating plant-based agricultural biotechnology products takes an overly broad approach that does not deliver adequate transparency and could contribute to future trade disruptions, said the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) in a May 14 statement. USDA announced on May 14 its final rule updating its biotechnology regulations under the Plant Protection Act. The final rule exempts from regulation plants that could have been developed through conventional breeding. In addition, a number ... Read More
FMCSA finalizes hours-of-service rules
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 14, 2020 -- The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) today commended the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) for issuing its long-awaited final rule on changes to driver hours-of-service regulations with reforms that will increase driver flexibility and facilitate the availability of truck transportation, which moves the vast majority of agricultural freight. “FMCSA’s final hours-of-service rule should improve trucking efficiency and expand trucking capacity,” NGFA noted. “The decision to increase the air-mile radius to 150 miles (172.6 statute ... Read More
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