After Last Year’s Ethanol Controversy, a New Group Launches a Campaign to Promote Corn to Washington Policymakers

Business Wire
March 02, 2009 07:00 AM Eastern Time

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--When corn prices spiked last year, big food manufacturers and oil companies claimed there wasn’t enough corn to feed everyone and make ethanol.

Now we know that was not true. There was always plenty of corn to make ethanol, not to mention corn to export and to feed ourselves and the cattle, chickens and pigs we raise on corn. And the federal Agriculture Department says there will be plenty of corn to meet demand for the foreseeable future.

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