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Look for the Blue Handle at Thortons

Look for the Blue Handle at Thortons

Installation of pumps that can dispense E15 at Thorntons Convenience Stores are now complete. Branded as Unleaded88 and identified by a blue handle, dispensers throughout more than a dozen of their locations in Louisville, Lexington, and a few in western Kentucky, will boost ethanol content by 50 percent compared to regular unleaded.

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USGC, FGIS Collaboration Helps Instill Global Buyers’ Confidence In U.S. Grains

USGC, FGIS Collaboration Helps Instill Global Buyers’ Confidence In U.S. Grains

A transparent and reliable understanding of the grain inspection process is essential to global markets and a critical reason the U.S. Grains Council (USGC) works so closely with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Federal Grain Inspection Service (USDA’s FGIS) to demonstrate to overseas buyers that the quality of U.S. grains delivered is the quality promised.

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Ethanol is the fastest growing corn market.  Period.

Ethanol is the fastest growing corn market.  Period.

The KY Corn Promotion Council puts a lot of energy and effort into finding the best ways to invest farmers’ corn checkoff resources – while, in Kentucky, livestock and poultry rule the day (with exports, or delivery to the Ohio River, closely trailing), nationally there is not a clearer avenue for growth in corn utilization than through ethanol.

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Economic Boom from Grain Exports Highlights Need for Trade Access and Market Development

Economic Boom from Grain Exports Highlights Need for Trade Access and Market Development

Access to international markets for U.S. grain supported an additional $41.8 billion in business sales during 2018 over and above the value of the grain sold, according to a study commissioned by the U.S. Grains Council (USGC) and the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) – highlighting the importance of new market access and robust market development for the profitability of U.S. grain farmers.

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Opinion: The Secret to Clean Air is No Secret. It’s Ethanol.

Opinion: The Secret to Clean Air is No Secret. It’s Ethanol.

Today, nearly 97 percent of America’s fuel supply is blended with 10 percent ethanol and use of 15 percent ethanol blends is growing. Higher blends of ethanol will produce even greater environmental benefits, especially when used with high efficiency engines designed to improve fuel economy with higher octane fuel.

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Agriculture Trade: A Reason for Optimism in 2021

Agriculture Trade: A Reason for Optimism in 2021

or generations, America’s farmers and ranchers have built strong trading relationships to help maintain a competitive edge in the global economy and bolster job creation across the United States. While corn farmers celebrated agreements to secure the future of U.S. trading relationships in 2020, there are still new growth opportunities for U.S. corn and corn products around the globe that we will work to capture.

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Congress Reauthorizes U.S. Grain Standards Act

Congress Reauthorizes U.S. Grain Standards Act

The U.S. grain inspection system provides certainty to our foreign customers that all U.S. grains and oilseeds have been inspected and certified by an independent agency. The system provides great value to U.S. commodities, enhancing our competitiveness in the world market, and is a significant advantage for U.S. products versus commodities from other origins.

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UK begins on-farm variable rate irrigation research

UK begins on-farm variable rate irrigation research

A University of Kentucky research project that could have significant impacts for Kentucky grain producers with irrigated acres is beginning on a Western Kentucky farm. Ole Wendroth, soil physicist in the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, is leading a study examining the effects of a variable rate irrigation system that, to his knowledge, is the first-of-its-kind in the state.

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Next Generation Fuels Act Introduced

Next Generation Fuels Act Introduced

The Kentucky Corn Growers Association applauds the introduction of The Next Generation Fuels Act. This legislation, that was introduced yesterday in the U.S. House of Representatives, will boost long term corn demand for clean, affordable ethanol.

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Investments that Move Corn

Investments that Move Corn

With corn harvest in full swing, it is a great time to focus on how the Kentucky Corn Promotion Council is continuing to invest in projects that will increase corn demand. KyCorn is focused on rebuilding markets for corn farmers by growing ethanol utilization, increasing exports of corn and corn products, finding new uses for corn, and building upon our relationships with animal agriculture partners.

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EPA Announces Interim Decision on Crucial Crop Protection Tools

EPA Announces Interim Decision on Crucial Crop Protection Tools

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a long-awaited interim decision regarding the reregistration of the triazines: atrazine, propazine, and simazine. After years of research and public comments from the agriculture community, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler declared these fundamental crop management tools safe for continued use in controlling resilient weeds.

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NCGA Releases Mid-Year Report for 2020

NCGA Releases Mid-Year Report for 2020

2020 began with reason for optimism in our industry. The signing of the USMCA trade deal, emerging corn purchases by China, a successful challenge to EPA granting RFS waivers and approval of year-round sales of E15 had us all looking for an economic rebound. Then the unthinkable happened as a pandemic stunned the world.

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2019/2020 Corn Export Cargo Quality Report Released And Promoted Virtually

2019/2020 Corn Export Cargo Quality Report Released And Promoted Virtually

The 2019/2020 U.S. corn crop faced many challenges, including late planting, delayed maturation and late harvests. Even with these challenges, data compiled in the U.S. Grains Council’s (USGC’s) 2019/2020 Corn Export Quality Report indicate the majority of the crop – 71.2 percent of samples tested – still had a test weight at or above the limit for U.S. No. 1 grade corn, indicating good quality and demonstrating the resiliency and reliability of the United States as a global grain supplier.

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About KYCA

Who is KY Corn
Our vision is to sustainably feed and fuel a growing world.
KyCGA
Our organization empowers corn farmers to elevate their voice in the governmental process.
KY Corn Promotion Council
The Kentucky Corn Promotion Council collects and administers a .0025 checkoff, which is remitted on corn sold throughout Kentucky.
Annual Report
Read the statement from Ray Allan Mackey, 2022 Kentucky Corn Promotion Council Chairman.

Checkoff at work

Overview
The Kentucky corn checkoff makes important market development, promotion, education, and research efforts possible.
Markets
We serve a variety of markets including, Ethanol, Bourbon & Distilled Spritis, Trade, and Livestock Feed to name a few.
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Education
Kentucky Corn supports multiple programs about agriculture literacy and improving agriculture educations.
Sustainability
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Policy

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Grassroots
For us, grassroots means that corn farmer members are the organization. Our organization is governed by a board of directors who are elected by farmer members.
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Programs

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Corn farmer checkoff funds go to a variety of annual programming to ensure a strong and vibrant Kentucky agriculture industry and to strengthen the efforts of other organizations toward their missions to enhance the future of our industry.
Core Farmer Scholarship
The CORE Farmer Program is a two-year curriculum designed to deliver classroom-style instructional learning, expand participants’ peer network and gain perspectives from other business endeavors.

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