The Colorado Corn Growers Association and Colorado Corn Administrative Committee are pleased to announce their upcoming Annual Meeting, scheduled for January 29, 2008.

This year, the Colorado Corn Annual Meeting and Banquet will be held in conjunction with the Colorado Farm Show at Island Grove Regional Park in Greeley.

The schedule will include:

3:00 to 4:00 Safety Seminar
4:00 to 5:30 Business Meeting and Elections
5:30 to 6:00 Social (Cash Bar)
6:00 to 8:30 Banquet, Keynote Speaker
and Program
Banquet
Welcome and Introductions
Byron Weathers- CCGA President
Steve Scott- CCAC President
Sponsor Recognition
Byron Weathers- CCGA President
Award Presentations
First Handler Award– Steve Scott
Legislator of the Year– Doug Melcher
Dave Dunivan Amicas Award– Doug Melcher
Company of the Year– Mark Sponsler
Jean Siros President’s Award– Byron Weathers
Guest Speaker
Mark Schwiebert
Invocation
Trent Bushner- CCGA Past-President
Dinner
Keynote Speaker
Mark Hillman

Speakers
Mark Hillman
Mark Hillman is a Colorado native, a farmer, "recovering journalist" and a former Majority Leader of the Colorado Senate. He also served as Colorado's acting State Treasurer and was elected to leadership posts for five of his seven years in the Senate.

His dynamic, common sense leadership earned recognition as National
Legislator of the Year, Champion of the Taxpayer, and Guardian of Small Business.

Mark also enjoys communicating these common-sense principles through the media. His commentaries have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post and numerous other publications. He
frequently comments as a guest or host for radio personalities Mike Rosen on Denver's 850 KOA, John Andrews' Backbone America on 710 KNUS, and Amy Oliver on Greeley's KFKA 1310.Mark and his wife, Heidi, make their home in Burlington, where Mark continues to operate the family farming operation.

Mark Schwiebert
Mark serves on the National Corn
Growers Association’s Corn Board, a producer-directed trade association headquartered in St. Louis, with a second office in Washington, D.C.

Mark is a partner in a farm operation that grows corn, popcorn, soybeans and soft red winter wheat in Hamler, Ohio. He also owns and operates a farm drainage contracting business, specializing in the installation of drainage tile.Mark serves as NCGA Corn Board liaison for the 2008 Public Policy Action Team and is a member of the 2008 CornPAC. He has served as a member of NCGA’s Public Policy Action Team and the Finance Committee and as a liaison to the Food and Ag Export Alliance.

Mark has been a member of the board of directors of the Ohio Corn Growers for the past six years and served as president for a year.