Green Fields: Corn growers blast critics of ethanol

Des Moines Register
10:43 PM, Feb. 19, 2011
Written by: PHILIP BRASHER & DAN PILLER

Rick Tolman, chief executive of the National Corn Growers Association, fired back at critics of corn and ethanol, describing them as "vicious enemies who are out there trying to change the way we produce food."

Tolman, speaking to the North Dakota corn growers "CornVention" in Fargo last week, noted that the use of more than a third of the U.S. corn crop for ethanol has been blamed for high food prices, which in turn has been fingered by analysts as a reason for unrest and revolution in Tunisia and Egypt.

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