South Dakota Corn Grower, Darrin Ihnen, President of the National Corn Growers Association, took the general session stage this morning with session moderator Mark Mayfield.
Mark had a list of questions for each of the commodity group leaders. With Darrin he started out talking about ethanol. Darrin talked about what the corn growers are doing in this area including pushing for higher blends in the fuel supply. All indications are that this is progressing in a positive way with the science looking good. He says they’re hoping for action by the end of this summer.
You can listen to Darrin and Mark below.
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I believe we are overlooking a couple crucial points in the ethanol debate. While every possible cost of producing corn is included when figuring the cost of ethanol no one is figuring the true cost of oil and gas such as the military cost of securing the region from which a huge portion of our oil orignates.During the 2008 presidental debate sen. gravel estimated the military cost alone to secure gas to be thee dollars per gallon.Secondly the envoirmental cost of cleaning up oil and gas spills in this country and the oceans is huge.US citizens are paying far more for oil and gas than the pump price but no one is reminding them of that.
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