In Nebraska, Progressive Farmer reported that Members of the National Corn Growers Association called on Congress and the Trump administration to push across the finish line legislation that would allow year-round, permanent sales of E15 nationwide, following the latest USDA estimates of a record corn crop expected in 2025.
If the 16.7-billion-bushel (bb) production estimate comes to fruition, it will be devastating to farmers and rural communities, growers said.
“This is a major concern for our farm back home here,” NCGA President and Illinois farmer Kenneth Hartman Jr. said. “I mean, this doesn’t only just affect our farmers, but this goes back to rural America. We had good prices back in 2022 and we had reasonable cost for our inputs. But now these prices have dropped in half and at the same time — I call it the inflation factor.”
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