WASHINGTON (August 3, 2010) -- National Corn Growers Association First Vice President Bart Schott released the following statement regarding Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s announcement that the Senate will not consider energy legislation before the Senate adjourns this week for its August recess:

WASHINGTON (July 26, 2010) – Three major ethanol groups today called on EPA Administrator Jackson to formally approve the use of E12 in the nation’s gasoline supply. The groups – American Coalition for Ethanol, National Corn Growers Association and the Renewable Fuels Association – in a formal letter to the EPA Administrator wrote, “based on the EPA’s delay in acting upon the full E15 waiver and on our concerns that the Agency will restrict the use of E15 to cars made in 2001 and thereafter, we encourage the EPA to formally approve the use of E12 for all motor vehicles as an immediate interim step pending any ongoing additional testing on E15.”

(WASHINGTON) July 14, 2010 -- National Corn Growers Association President Darrin Ihnen today presented the President’s Award to Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) during NCGA’s Corn Congress events in Washington, D.C. The President’s Award is given annually to a leader who has worked to advance issues important to corn growers and agriculture.

ST. LOUIS, (May 24, 2010) – The National Corn Growers Association announced today that Dr. Gale Buchanan, dean and director emeritus of the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, will give the keynote address at the Corn Utilization and Technology Conference grand opening, June 7 in Atlanta.

(ST. LOUIS) May 17, 2010 -- The constantly shifting body of research surrounding impacts of ethanol on land use worldwide means only one thing, the National Corn Growers Association believes: It’s time to throw out the whole debated theory of indirect land use change.