Fall Board Meeting in Conjunction with U.S. Wheat Associates

NAWG and U.S. Wheat Associates held their 2009 fall meeting Oct. 21-23 at the Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in Snowbird, Utah. Recaps of those meetings and information about the 2010 events are below.

Recap

Grower-leaders from NAWG and U.S. Wheat Associates met in Snowbird, Utah, for a round of fall meetings concluding Oct. 23. NAWG held meetings of its four policy committees on Wednesday, and members of both organizations met in joint committee meetings covering biotechnology and trade on Wednesday and Thursday.

The two Boards met in a joint session on Thursday afternoon, and the NAWG Board and NAWG Foundation Board met Friday morning. The NAWG Board accepted 10 new resolutions and deleted or allowed to expire three others based on a resolution review process that occurs at each meeting.

Additionally, the NAWG Board of Directors accepted a bylaw change to empower the NAWG Nominating Committee to elect its own chairman, and the NAWG Foundation Board of Directors accepted a bylaw change to clarify the makeup and role of the Foundation Development Committee.

A couple of notable transitions were also marked at the meetings. The Snowbird sessions were the first for the Ohio Wheat Growers Association as a NAWG member-state. Ohio wheat organizations joined both NAWG and U.S. Wheat Associates this summer. A goodbye reception was held Thursday evening for NAWG CEO Daren Coppock, who will move to the Agricultural Retailer’s Association as of Jan. 1, 2010. Coppock has been NAWG’s CEO since 2001.

For the full report of the meeting from NAWG’s Report from Washington, click here.

Audio Reports and Photos

Audio reports from each NAWG policy committee chairman and joint committee chairman and photos from throughout the week are also available here at NAWG’s online home. All can be reused with permission from Melissa George Kessler in the NAWG office.

2010 Fall Meetings

NAWG’s 2010 Fall Board Meeting in conjunction with U.S. Wheat Associates will be held Oct. 23-25, 2010, at the Hilton Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minn. More information will become available on this page in spring 2010.