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Corn Farmers Coalition says fairness must be policy priority

The nation’s corn farmers would be hard pressed to find a policy issue NOT potentiallyimpacting their livelihood – whether it’s environmental standards to be set by the EPA, decisions on removing the blend wall, or the state of California’s low emissions standard impacting ethanol. The newly formed Corn Farmers Coalition, an alliance of the National Corn Growers Association and 10state corn groups, is working to educate policy decision makers in Washington, D.C., about how these decisions will affect agriculture.

Farmer and first vice president of the NCGA, Darrin Ihnen of Hurley, South Dakota, told reporters Thursday, that message number one isfairness, whether its on the RFS or the California decision, “Let’s not make critical decisions like this without all the facts at hand and without a fair comparison about what it takes to make a gallon of gas to a gallon of ethanol.”

He urges farmers to be intouch with the EPA through letters and email comments.