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Our
Mission
As a membership based organization,
and separate from the
Ohio Corn Checkoff Program,
our mission is to facilitate
opportunities for Ohio corn growers,
and represent
you
in forums that
impact your livelihood
Ethanol: Helping Limit Fuel Prices
While critics accuse ethanol of
driving up food prices, what many do not realize is that
without ethanol, energy prices would be even higher.
Increased fuel costs would no doubt increase food prices.
Following are just a few of the
studies that show ethanol is a key factor in keeping
fuel prices from rising ...
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Big Oil Making Big Money
While consumers are pinched with
record prices at the pump and growing food costs, oil
companies are enjoying times of soaring
profit. The higher costs of oil are being passed on to
customers. Yet, oil companies continue to enjoy increasing
profits and $18 billion in federal subsidies.
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Ethanol plants
in Ohio
OCGA
has an updated map of ethanol plants under construction or
operating in
Ohio! Click on the thumbnail logo above to go to the page.
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News
Expert
says there is plenty
of time to plant corn
MARION,
Oh – Many corn farmers in the state are eagerly watching the
skies and weather forecasts so they can continue to plant
crops.
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Increasing Food Prices: It’s All About Oil, Speculation,
Drought and Worldwide Demand
At a press
conference Wednesday, leaders from farm and ethanol groups
pointed to skyrocketing oil prices, hedge fund commodity
speculators, growing worldwide demand for grain and severe
droughts as the major factors underlying rising food prices.
They also pointed to the expansion of biofuels as preventing
even higher oil prices. The groups cited Merrill Lynch
analyst Francisco Blanch’s estimate that oil and gasoline
prices would be about 15 percent higher, or $4.14 a gallon
at today’s prices, if biofuel producers weren't increasing
their output.
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Ohio
corn grower honored for land stewardship
COLUMBUS, OH –Long Farms operated by Bruce and Tod
Long has a stewardship goal to leave the land and
environment a better place than which they found it. Because
of that commitment, they’ve been presented the 2008
Environmental Stewardship Award from the Ohio Livestock
Coalition (OLC), the Ohio Corn Growers Association and the
Ohio Soybean Association.
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Leading
Food Policy Center Study Cites Rising Oil Costs as
Underlying Force in Food and Fuel Argument
A study released
today by Texas A&M’s Agricultural and Food Policy Center
illustrates corn prices have had little to do with rising
food costs, the National Corn Growers Association notes. The
report, “The Effects of Ethanol on Texas Food and Fuel” also
determined that relaxing the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS)
would not result in lower corn prices for livestock and
poultry feeders.
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