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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Texas ranchers call on EPA to lift RFS standard
The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) called
on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Wednesday to waive the
current Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) in light of corn shortages and
soaring feed costs across the U.S. According to TSCRA, the government mandates that 40 percent of the
U.S. annual corn crop go directly toward ethanol production; however,
federal law does allow the EPA administrator to waive this requirement
for up to 1 year if the implementation would severely harm the economy
or environment of a state, a region or the U.S. “As record drought conditions throughout the U.S. continue to push
corn yields lower and prices upward, the economic ramifications for
consumers, livestock and animal agriculture producers will become even
more severe,” said Joe Parker Jr., rancher and TSCRA president, in
comments submitted to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. “These
ramifications are particularly severe in Texas, the leading cattle
producing state in the nation.” Parker says that last year was the first year ever that ethanol
production used more corn than all animal agriculture combined. With
corn supplies continuing to tighten across the U.S., the current RFS
standard is only compounding the situation by reducing the already
extremely limited amount of corn available for feed...more
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