Farm Talk: The push for year-round E15 continues

Well, of course, they were there.

We had, I don't know the exact count, it was somewhere 20 to 22 different ag groups that all had a little chance to speak.

And being we had so many, it was only two or three minutes apiece.

But they just kind of wanted to go over the success they'd had with some of the payments coming out and also the work on E15 and that they were working on the you know, trying to get a farm bill finalized and not just keep going with extensions.

And so that was the main focus, and everybody chimed in on their piece.

You know, our big one was the E15, but also, you know, trying to get more of a permanency to the programs.

I said all the ad hocs, which, you know, it's – in a perfect world, that's all you do.

Uh, when things get really crazy with fertilizer and everything, uh, um, sometimes these programs are unfortunately needed.

So Mark, visit with me about the importance of making sure that that year round E15 does cross the finish line and really what it means for corn producers out there, because it would certainly make a difference when we're talking about markets.

Moving a lot more, a lot more bushels.

I mean, we've got bushels produced.

I mean, this year, um, apparently you think we're going to have a lot of bushels, but, uh, Locally, not really the case, but just moving a whole lot more gallons, which means a lot more bushels to get them moved across the finish line, and just building our market that we've been working on.

Well, of course, they were there.

We had, I don't know the exact count, it was somewhere 20 to 22 different ag groups that all had a little chance to speak.

And being we had so many, it was only two or three minutes apiece.

But they just kind of wanted to go over the success they'd had with some of the payments coming out and also the work on E15 and that they were working on the you know, trying to get a farm bill finalized and not just keep going with extensions.

And so that was the main focus, and everybody chimed in on their piece.

You know, our big one was the E15, but also, you know, trying to get more of a permanency to the programs.

I said all the ad hocs, which, you know, it's – in a perfect world, that's all you do.

Uh, when things get really crazy with fertilizer and everything, uh, um, sometimes these programs are unfortunately needed.

So Mark, visit with me about the importance of making sure that that year round E15 does cross the finish line and really what it means for corn producers out there, because it would certainly make a difference when we're talking about markets.

Moving a lot more, a lot more bushels.

I mean, we've got bushels produced.

I mean, this year, um, apparently you think we're going to have a lot of bushels, but, uh, Locally, not really the case, but just moving a whole lot more gallons, which means a lot more bushels to get them moved across the finish line, and just building our market that we've been working on.