American Farm Bureau Supports RFS
Delegates for the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) last week voted overwhelmingly to support continuation of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), despite the fact that membership in the organization includes a substantial percentage of livestock producers.
“The livestock guys still have concerns about high feed costs, and I’m one of them, I’m a beef producer,” said AFBF president Bob Stallman. “On the other hand, we have this renewable fuels infrastructure that’s in place, a very large industry that employs lots of people and provides a market for a lot of products, so we need to be very careful not to have policies trying to dismantle that.”
There were 362 voting delegates at the 94th AFBF Annual meeting in Nashville last week representing every crop and livestock sector in the 50 states and Puerto Rico. The policies approved at the annual meeting will guide the nation’s largest general farm organization in its legislative and regulatory efforts throughout 2013.
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Michael Marsalek
The definition of insanity is to continue to make the same mistake over and again expecting to get a different outcome. Most thoughtful people full well understand that there are untold reasons for the government insistance on corn based ethanol. For example: many food processors have quietly abandonded high fructose corn syrup . Also, recent ( long term ) studies indicate that feeding genetically modified corn causes mice to grow massive tumors. Most right thinking Americans favor making fuel from base products that do not belong at any stage in the food change which would explain the government subsidies and mandate for corn ethanol.
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