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Feed Industry Demands Ethanol Policy Flexibility

Steve Kopperud
Steve Kopperud

“This is the year we’ve been afraid would come,” Phil Greene, vice president of Livingston, CA-based Foster Farms, stated. In the midst of our nation’s fourth driest summer on record, crop yield estimates have plummeted, corn prices have skyrocketed and Greene points out the unavoidable truth: “We won’t have enough supply with this current scenario.” Foster Farms is an integrated, family-owned chicken and turkey producer. Greene runs the commodity division and supplies hundreds...
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