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Craig Floss. CEO Iowa Corn Growers Association and Iowa Corn Promotion Board. Iowa Corn Mission . Creating Opportunities for Long-term Iowa Corn Grower Profitability. Iowa Corn market graph . U.S Corn Usage . Iowa Corn Crop Projections .
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Craig Floss CEO Iowa Corn Growers Association and Iowa Corn Promotion Board
Iowa Corn Mission Creating Opportunities for Long-term Iowa Corn Grower Profitability
Corn Industry Collaboration. Build stronger collaborative relationships with Iowa Corn’s traditional partners • Grow the markets for corn, corn co-products, and meat in foreign countries – especially those with a rapidly growing middle class. • Support the livestock and poultry industries in their legislative and regulatory efforts as appropriate. • Maintain and build demand for the livestock industry with continued relationships with pork, beef, dairy and poultry. • Promote corn-fed pork, beef, eggs and dairy to consumers Iowa Corn Goals related to Livestock
Iowa Corn Livestock Support • Iowa Corn Research -- studies in the poultry, dairy, and beef industries for inclusion of DDGs and impact on carcass quality. • Industry Collaboration • USMEF • CSIF • Commodity Group Industry Meetings
DDGS -- adding value to every kernel • USDA reports that a metric ton of DDGS can replace on average 1.22 metric tons of feed consisting of corn and soybean meal • DDGS represents nearly 40% of the corn used in ethanol production process for a given crop year
Grow the corn-ethanol market to 20 billion gallons by 2015 while providing corn and co-products to the livestock industry. • Collaborate with other groups with similar interest to develop and support a comprehensive US energy policy that promotes energy security. The biofuels portion of the plan should include: • 100% flex fuel fleet • Higher biofuel blends • Defending and expanding the RFS • Ethanol infrastructure • Grow the demand for corn, corn co-products and meat in foreign countries especially those countries with an expanding middle class Overall Iowa Corn goals related to Ethanol
Iowa Corn Ethanol Programs • American Ethanol partnership with NASCAR, Growth Energy and NCGA • Iowa Corn Indy 250 • Iowa Speedway on track “Powered by Iowa Corn Ethanol” • Iowa Corn CyHawk Series
Ethanol Education & Promotion • Pump Promotions • Surveys (consumers, members) • Dealership Training • FFV direct mail with coupons • Billboard campaign • FFV give-aways (Iowa Corn Fed Tour, Iowa Corn Gameday, Iowa Corn CyHawk Series) • Biofuels Mobile Education Center partnership • BYO Ethanol national campaign
Synergies of Iowa Corn markets • Iowa Corn farmers continue to grow corn to meet the demands of all markets while providing: • Food • Feed • Fuel • Exports
Thank you! IowaCorn.org