"Corn Growers Adopt New Name and Logo"

Greg Roth

Since its inception, the name of our organization has been the Pennsylvania Master Corn Growers Association, Inc. In August 2001, the board of directors discussed the issue of the name of the organization and several directors suggested that we remove the word "Master" from our name. The reasoning was that this would make our name more consistent with other states and that we might eliminate any elitist connotation that might be associated with our name. We then asked the membership for comments on the name change and received several responses that supported this change. So, in November the board voted to change the name of our organization to The Pennsylvania Corn Growers Association, Inc. We filed the appropriate legal papers and have notified the National Corn Growers Association of the change. We have also developed a new logo to represent our organization. After careful consideration, the board of directors chose a logo with our state outline and the NCGA corn ear. You’ll start to see this more in our Corn Talk and other communications you receive from PCGA.

January 2002