Iowa Grain and Feed Association.

The Iowa Grain and Feed Association (IGFA) was organized in 1988 as the Iowa Grain Dealers Association. A groupof one hundred and fifty elevator operators organized the association in order to gain the benefits of a united group within the industry. The association promoted the interests of the grain and feed and feed industry, offered technical advice and services to its membership, made the association's concerns heard by Iowa's elected officieals in Congress, updated its members on regulations affecting the industry, and sponsored research on the production and processing grain. Once the largest state grain and feed association in the nation with a membership of more than one thousand two hundred two hundred, membership in the association included grain, feed and fertilizer agribusinesses and included both independent and cooperative agribusinesses with a diversity of types and sizes.