For the fourth consecutive year, the EPA is issuing an emergency fuel waiver to allow summertime E15 sales.
While that is a welcome move for both consumers and producers, many are still calling for a permanent fix.
Geoff Cooper with the Renewable Fuels Association spoke with RFD-TV’s Tammi Arender on what this means for the industry, the call for year-round E15, and the likelihood of that happening.
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Ohio’s 90-day fuel-tax suspension provides temporary relief as farmers work through harvest, but Brad Bales with the Ohio Farm Bureau says longer-term solutions are needed to address higher production costs.
The Renewable Fuels Association says emergency waivers do not provide retailers with long-term certainty.
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst says the next major step for the Farm Bill will come after the November elections — with Proposition 12, year-round E15, foreign farmland ownership, and negotiations over a five-year bill among the issues still in focus.
Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., and a Senate Ag Committee member, said Nebraska producers want certainty, disaster assistance, and more markets. The legislation now awaits consideration by the full Senate, but must be done by Sept. 30.