WASHINGTON – Jan. 31, 2008 – The American Corn Growers Association (ACGA), the nation’s first and leading commodity organization in the advocacy, promotion and development of wind generated power, commended Senators Max Baucus, D-Mont., Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the committee’s senior minority member, for including an extension of the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind-generated electricity as part of the pending economic stimulus package.

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 19, 2008--- Speaking at the American Corn Growers Association’s (ACGA) twenty-first anniversary convention in Milwaukee on Jan. 19, National Farmers Organization (NFO) President Paul Olson of Taylor, Wis., painted a positive picture for agriculture in the years ahead, and offered solutions for the challenges family farmers face in today’s volatile ag markets.

Olson declared that every sector of NFO’s operations were reporting solid growth in their work to advance the economic power of farm families. 

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 18, 2008--- Keith Dittrich, Chairman of the American Corn Grower Association’s Board of Directors used his address at ACGA’s twenty-first anniversary convention in Milwaukee on Jan. 18, 2008, to explain the farmer’s point of view on recent price increases for energy and food.

MILWAUKEE, Jan 18, 2008 – American Corn Growers Association (ACGA) President Keith Bolin, speaking before the organization’s twenty-first anniversary convention in Milwaukee, took issue with recent statements made by U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., regarding the current import tariff on imports of ethanol. 

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 18, 2008--- Renowned ethanol pioneer and author Dave Blume presented a renewable fuels workshop at ACGA’s twenty-first anniversary convention in Milwaukee on Jan. 18, 2008.  Blume has been working on ethanol production since the early 1970s and released a new book Alcohol Can Be a Gas last summer.

ACGA's 21st Annual Convention, held Jan 17-20, 2008 in Milwaukee was broadcast live over AllTalkRadio.net.  Proceedings from the conference, "Powering the Future: Food, Fuels, & Family Farmers" can still be heard at AllTalkRadio.net.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2007 – American Corn Growers Association President Keith Bolin, a corn and livestock producer in Bureau County, Ill., praised this week’s passage of sweeping energy legislation by the U.S. House of Representatives.

“As farmers we are excited that we are once again being called upon to help the nation move toward energy independence,” declared Bolin. 

WASHINGTON, Sept.25, 2007 – Keith Bolin, President of the American Corn Growers Association (ACGA), says his organization is opposed to any actions by USDA to allow an early exit from the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). “USDA should stay the course on the CRP,” said Bolin. “Recent discussions coming out of the Department of Agriculture suggesting an administrative action to allow farmers to exit the program early is short-sighted and ill-advised.”

WASHINGTON – Sept. 20, 2007 – Keith Bolin, President of the American Corn Growers Association (ACGA), in a recent letter to Chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, explained his organization’s concerns with Revenue Based Counter-Cyclical proposals being considered for the new farm bill.

WASHINGTON – Sept. 17, 2007 – Keith Dittrich, Chairman of the American Corn Growers Association (ACGA) Board of Directors, renewed support by his organization for the Railroad Competition and Service Improvement Act of 2007 (H.R. 2125/S. 953) in light of recent reports that five major freight rail companies overcharged customers by more than $6.5 billion under the guise of fuel surcharges.