Department of Energy Recognizes ACGF's
Director McGuire
CHICAGO, May 8, 2009—ACGF
Wealth From The Wind Program and Nebraska Wind for Schools
Outreach Success Recognized by DOE With ACGF Project
Director/Nebraska Wind for Schools Facilitator Receiving
“Midwest Regional Wind Advocate Award” at Wind Powering America
Summit – May 2009 in Chicago, Illinois
AMERICAN
CORN GROWERS ARE MAJOR SPONSOR OF WINDPOWER 2008 IN HOUSTONEnergy Independence, New Transmission, 20% Wind Energy Vision, C-BED Wind Model Are Key
HOUSTON, May 23, 2008---The American Corn Growers Foundation (ACGF) and the American Corn Growers Association (ACGA), through their Wealth From The Wind (WFTW) program, are a major sponsor of WINDPOWER 2008 June 1-4 in Houston, Texas. WINDPOWER 2008 is expected to be the largest wind energy conference and trade show ever held in North America with as many as eight thousand representatives of the wind industry, government and advocacy organizations participating in the activities.....complete Story Click here for the (.pdf) Press Release.
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An Editorial Comment on Wind Energy Policy
By Dan McGuire, Consultant, CEO-American Corn Growers Foundation
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2008—Congress needs to prioritize extending renewable energy incentives. In so doing they will be in step with the vast majority of the American public in acknowledging and endorsing wind energy’s many benefits.
Wind Energy is Green Power: According to the U.S. Department of Energy and National Renewable Energy Laboratory(NREL) Wind Energy Benefits fact sheet www.nrel.gov/docs/fy05osti/37602.pdf, “Wind energy is clean energy that produces no emissions, which means it doesn’t contribute to acid rain and snow, global climate change, smog, regional haze, mercury contamination, water withdrawal, and particulate-related health effects.” Water use is also a critical issue for this country, especially in the Great Plains and the western U.S. NREL estimates that 4,000 Megawatts of wind energy results in 10.51 billion gallons of savings in water withdrawn and 6.31 billion gallons of savings in water consumed. A 1/23/08 AP article reports that one nuclear plant in America’s Southeast draws 33 million gallons of water a day, with 17 million gallons lost to evaporation in the cooling towers. And fossil/thermal plants don’t operate 100 percent of the time either....complete Story Click here for the (.pdf) Press Release.
WASHINGTON, DC, June 21, 2007—The American Corn Growers Foundation (ACGF), through its Wealth From The Wind program, is continuing its information, education and outreach project aimed at developing the economic and environmental potential of wind power generation for the economic benefit of farmers, the people living in rural communities and for the future energy security of the American economy and society overall.
The wind energy education and outreach project is funded by a two-year $300,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) of Battle Creek, Michigan and continues throughout calendar years 2007 and 2008.....complete Story Click here for the (.pdf) Press Release.
Wind Energy Works as an
Integral Part of Future Farm Policy
Author: Dan McGuire
Consultant, CEO-American Corn Growers Foundation (ACGF)
WASHINGTON, June 4,
2007—“Farm and commodity groups have come together to support
progressive wind energy policies as a result of the ACGF-ACGA
Wealth From The Wind program. The American Agricultural Wind
Coalition (AAWC) continues to inform farm Organization
leadership and continues to promote policies that help both
individual farmers and rural America capture the economic
benefits of wind turbine ownership or wind project involvement,”
says David Senter, AAWC national coordinator and ACCF
consultant, Washington, DC.......complete Story
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for the (.pdf) brochure.
New ACGF Survey Shows Only
26% of Elevators Segregate GMO from Non-GMO
WASHINGTON, May 18, 2007—The American Corn Growers
Foundation (ACGF) surveyed 1,057 grain elevators during April
2007 in the eighteen (18) states that produce the majority of U.
S. grain. “Only 26% of the elevators surveyed report that they
require the segregation of GMO (genetically modified) varieties
from Non-GMO varieties. This finding raises concerns about the
ability of the U.S. to hold on to the critical corn gluten
export market that is so important to the future health of our
ethanol sector,” reports Dan McGuire, Director of the ACGF
Farmer Choice-Customer First program......complete Story
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for the Survey Results.
New ACGF Survey Shows Only 26% of Elevators Segregate GMO from Non-GMO
....complete Story Click here for the Survey Results.
Biomass as Feedstock for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry: The Technical Feasibility of a Billion-Ton Annual Supply....complete Story
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NATIONAL
WIND ENERGY COALITION CELEBRATES FIRST ANNIVERSARY, FORESEES
CONTINUED GROWTH IN MEMBERS, ACTIVITIES
WASHINGTON, DC, July 17, 2006---The national Wind Energy
Works! coalition celebrates its first anniversary this month.
Launched to highlight the breadth and strength of support for
wind energy across the country, the coalition brings together
the American Wind Energy Association and a wide array of groups
that support wind energy development for its many benefits. The
coalition has grown from 23 members at the time it was launched
to almost 70 members today, and includes national, regional and
local agricultural, economic development, environmental, and
faith-based groups. For a full listing of members see
http://www.windenergyworks.org/coalition_members.html.....complete Story
WASHINGTON, DC, June 5, 2006---Wind energy offers a new and critically important means for farmers and rural America to help mitigate two looming economic threats to the rural economy. One threat stems from proposals on the table at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Escalating agricultural input costs from fossil fuel prices is the other threat.....complete Story
AMERICAN CORN GROWERS CO-SPONSOR WINDPOWER 2006 IN PITTSBURGH, PA
Renewable Energy, Soaring Cost of Corn Production and U. S. Farm Policy Are Key ACGF Messages
PITTSBURGH, June 2, 2006---The American Corn Growers Foundation (ACGF) and the American Corn Growers Association (ACGA), through their Wealth From The Wind (WFTW) program, are major sponsors of WINDPOWER 2006 June 4-7 in Pittsburgh, PA. WINDPOWER 2006 is expected to be the largest wind energy conference and trade show ever held in North America with as many as forty-five hundred to five thousand participating in the activities.....complete Story
Steering Committee Member, Wind Energy Works! Coalition
WASHINGTON, DC, May 30, 2006---Energy is on the front page of our nation’s papers again. From high prices at the gas pump to bitter disputes over drilling in wilderness areas, Americans are examining their “addiction to oil.” ....complete Story
WASHINGTON, DC, August 10, 2005---The American Corn Growers Foundation (ACGF), through its Wealth From The Wind program, is continuing its information, education and outreach project aimed at developing the economic and environmental potential of wind power generation for the economic benefit of farmers, the people living in rural communities and for the future energy security of American society.....complete Story
New National Coalition Formed to Promote
Clean, Renewable, Domestic Wind Energy Development
“Wind Energy Works!”
Will Draw on Diverse Membership to Engage in the National Wind
Energy Conversation, Combat Misinformation
July 6, 2005 – Washington, D.C. – The American Wind Energy
Association (AWEA) today announced the formation of a broad
national coalition of wind energy advocates that is intended to
be the largest pro-wind energy development organization of its
kind in the United States. Wind Energy Works! will actively and
aggressively engage in the public conversation over the merits
of wind energy, educate the public about the many benefits of
wind energy development, and act as a counterbalance to the
misinformation being spread by wind energy opponents in
communities across the country.....complete Story
AMERICAN CORN GROWERS CO-SPONSOR NORTH AMERICA’S LARGEST EVER WIND CONF.
U.S. DEPT. OF ENERGY WIND POWERING AMERICA PROGRAM PRAISED FOR AG OUTREACH
DENVER, MAY 15, 2005---The American Corn Growers Foundation (ACGF) and the American Corn Growers Association (ACGA), through their Wealth From The Wind program, are a major sponsor of WINDPOWER 2005 this week in Denver, Colo. WINDPOWER 2005 is expected to be the largest wind energy event ever held in North America with as many as four thousand expected to attend....complete Story
AMERICAN CORN GROWERS
FOUNDATION RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT LOST CORN GLUTEN MARKET
LOW CORN PRICES DUE TO BIOTECH BLUNDERING
Washington, D.C., May 9, 2005—The
American Corn Growers Foundation (ACGF) and the American Corn
Growers Association (ACGA) are warning U.S. corn farmers that
key U.S. corn gluten exports are being lost due to unapproved
biotech, specifically GMO (genetically modified organisms)
varieties that are unacceptable in various markets....complete Story
Read the October 25, 2004 News Release (.pdf document)
Elevator Survey Results-Corn. Complete Survey Results
2004 Producer GMO Acreage Survey. Survey Results
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2004—A new nationwide survey of U.S. corn farmers found that they planted only 34.4 percent of their total corn acres to genetically modified (GMO), biotech varieties in 2004. Robinson and Muenster Associates, Inc. of Sioux Falls, South Dakota conducted the survey for the American Corn Growers Foundation (ACGF) Farmer Choice-Customer First program during June of 2004....more
CORN FARMER SURVEY SHOWS VERY STRONG SUPPORT FOR WIND ENERGY INCENTIVES
RMA INC. FINDS MOST SUPPORT GRANTS AND WIND PRODUCTION TAX CREDITSPROMOTE YEAR ROUND RENEWABLE ENERGY CROP
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