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  • Ethanol Industry Leaders Gather in Indianapolis

    Leaders in the ethanol industry met today in Indianapolis to discuss the future of the industry. Tom Buis, the CEO of Growth Energy, the nation’s leading advocacy organization for domestic ethanol, was joined by Rosalind Leeck, Director of Biofuels at the Indiana Corn Marketing Council, and Steve Pittman, Director of the Indiana Ethanol Producers Association and General Manager of POET-Portland.   Indiana makes 1.1 billion gallons of ethanol every year in 13 different ethanol plants across the state, consuming 407 million bushels of Indiana corn each year. Indiana’s ethanol industry has created 3,486 full-time jobs within the state and the [...]

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  • Indiana Corn Checkoff Bill Passes House

    On Friday the House passed the Corn Marketing Council bill on its third reading on a 90-0 vote. Representative Don Lehe authored HB 1128 that passed unanimously out of the Houaw ag committee. The  main programmatic change in the bill is with the E-85 reimbursement fund that currently mandates $500,000 from ICMC be paid to the Budgetary Office each July to pay for the 18 cent tax credit retailers can receive for every gallon they sell of E-85 in January, February and March of each year. The bill sunsets this portion of the law, ending the program. The bill cleans [...]

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  • Are You Ready to Be Hungry and Naked?

    Several years ago I had the opportunity to speak to an Ag Day breakfast in Jackson County, IN. After my speech, the local FFA chapter presented me with a shirt that read: “Naked and Hungry” on the front. On the back the shirt said: “What you would be without agriculture.” I still have this shirt today because of its simple, yet poignant, truth. This truth, however, has been lost on some US business leaders as well as a few reporters and Yahoo news. Last week, Yahoo news, not exactly a credible news organization in my view, published an article on [...]

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