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NCGA Consider Corn Challenge III Contest New Uses for Corn
The National Corn growers Association (NCGA) has launched the Consider Corn Challenge III Contest. The NCGA is asking for participants to answer the call and submit proposals for new uses of field corn as a feedstock for producing sustainable chemicals and products with quantifiable market demand. Quite simply the NCGA is using check-off dollars to try and find new uses for corn. Who finds or pays into the corn checkoff you may ask? That would be all farmers that raise and sell corn! Corn is an affordable, abundant, sustainably grown crop that has a myriad of uses and applications, which is why we are holding our third Consider Corn Challenge contest, said NCGA Market Development Action Team Chair and Iowa farmer Bob Hemesath. Past winners of the Consider Corn Challenge I and II have scaled up to the next phase of development and received grant funding, entered into joint agreements and even obtained registration for