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Michigan Corn bullish on sustainable aviation bills

The Executive Director of the Michigan Corn Growers Association says he’s very optimistic the state could approve sustainable aviation fuel incentives this year.

Scott Piggott tells Brownfield new bipartisan, bicameral legislation would help build capacity for the fuel.

“It’s not a tax incentive for farmers to grow more corn.”

“It’s not a tax incentive to generate more ethanol for the purposes of generating SAF,” he says. “It is a tax credit for people who blend or produce SAF. In Michigan, it can be up to $2.00 per gallon.”

He says similar measures have been passed in several other states, including Illinois, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Minnesota, to stimulate production for the aviation industry.

“Right now, we don’t have a plant in Michigan that can produce sustainable aviation fuel, but our intention is, the intention of the legislation is by January 1st of 2030, any of the biological feedstock that goes into staff must be domestically produced,” he says.

The incentive is capped at $4.5 million annually in the first year and $9 million annually for the next nine years.