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News from July 2009
Ag Economists Upbeat on ACRE Program Benefits
July 22: With the Aug. 14 enrollment deadline for the new Average Crop Revenue Election Program -- also called ACRE -- only weeks away, the National Corn Growers Association is reaching out to farmers with the latest tools and information to make their decision easier.
CORN YIELD CONTEST DEADLINE
Colorado Corn Growers Association Members and Corn Producers,
I hope you all are doing well as wheat harvest is upon us!
I wanted to personally remind each of you the National Corn Yield Contest Deadline is nearing.
Support flowing for NISP
Advocates rally behind project
By Pamela Dickman
Loveland Reporter-Herald
EATON — The large metal shed surrounded by growing fields of corn on the Leffler family farm usually houses farm implements and machinery in need of repair.
Tuesday, instead of the sounds of farm machinery, irrigation water and farm animals, more than 250 people filled the shop with applause and rallying cries in support of a proposed water supply project.
NISP supporters: We can do without luxuries, but not food
EATON — Bob Sakata has been farming in Adams and Weld counties for 64 years.
He noted he's seen it all over those six-plus decades, from low prices, to hail, to wind, to drought to late spring freezes. But he had one important message Tuesday at the Farmers for NISP Rally on the Russ and John Leffler Farm west of here.
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