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EPA heard pros and cons at RFS hearing
The EPA heard a wide variety of opinions Tuesday at its RFS hearing in Washington.
Indiana farmer Dave Gottbrath, who testified on behalf of the Indiana Corn Growers Association, tells Brownfield a strong ethanol industry is vital to farmers in his state.
“We produced almost a billion bushels of corn last year and 47 percent of it went to ethanol production,” Gottbrath says. “So that makes it really important to Indiana farmers that the RFS continues to support ethanol throughout the industry.”
AUDIO: Dave Gottbrath
But Isaac Orr with The Heartland Institute, a “free-market think tank”, said the RFS is actually hurting small- to medium-sized farms because the ethanol mandate drives up the cost of producing corn.
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