Stronger support for farmers, biofuels, Harkin predicts

Agriculture Online
Dan Looker
Successful Farming magazine Business Editor
11/10/2008, 1:15 PM CST

Biofuels emphasis
Senator Tom Harkin, the Iowa Democrat who heads the Senate Agriculture Committee, says President-elect Barack Obama will have a USDA that supports the farm bill Congress passed over a veto last summer. And the new Obama Administration will be a strong advocate of biofuels, Harkin tells Agriculture Online.

"I think you're going to see from the Obama administration much more emphasis on rural renewable energy, on ethanol. They're just going to be pushing really hard on the renewable fuels standard and on cellulosic ethanol," says Harkin.

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