Corn Board

Chip Bowling

Board Liaison to PPAT Team

Chip Bowling, a corn grower in Newburg, Md., serves as a member of the Corn Board of the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), a farmer-led trade association with offices in St. Louis and Washington.

A farmer for more than three decades, Bowling is a third-generation farmer. He operates a 1,400-acre grain farm growing corn, soybean, wheat, barley and grain sorghum only an hour’s drive outside of Washington, DC.

A graduate of NCGA’s first Advanced Leadership Academy class, Bowling currently serves on NCGA’s Association Relations Committee and as the Corn Board liaison to the Public Policy Action Team, on which he formerly served. He has also served on NCGA’s CornPac Committee and Mycotoxin Task Force.

Previously, Bowling served at the state and local levels as a past president of the Maryland Grain Producers Association, a Farm Service Agency committee chairman, as a director for the Charles County Farm Bureau and on the Charles County Economic Development Board.

Founded in 1957, the National Corn Growers Association represents approximately 35,000 dues-paying corn growers and the interests of more than 300,000 farmers who contribute through corn checkoff programs in their states. NCGA and its 48 affiliated state associations and checkoff organizations work together to help protect and advance corn growers’ interests.