NPPC Urges RFS Waiver
WASHINGTON, D.C. - With rising pressures on this year’s corn crop, which now have been ratcheted up because of flooding in the Midwest, and the prospect of significant numbers of pork producers going out of business from the resulting higher feed costs, the National Pork Producers Council today called for the federally-mandated target for corn-based ethanol production to be cut in half.