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National Grain & Feed Association (NGFA): The NGFA national annual conference, November 3-5 at the JW Marriott, has 600 attendees. The conference is for NGFA members only, has a tradeshow with exhibits, expert speakers, and industry education. The NGFA was founded in 1896, and is a non-profit trade association that represents and provides services for grain, feed and related commercial businesses. NGFA members are companies – 1,000 currently. Those 1,000 manage over 6,000 facilities, which handle more than 70 percent of all U.S. grains and oilseeds. These 1,000 companies include: country elevators that provide storage, merchandising and farm supply services to farmers feed mills that manufacture feeds for the livestock, poultry, aquaculture and pet food industries grain processors and millers who process raw grain into flour, corn meal, syrup, and soybean oil livestock and poultry integrators.
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