President Trump “sold out ethanol to Big Oil” by handing out dozens of exemptions from the ethanol mandate, said Iowa farmer Pam Johnson, speaking for the Biden campaign at a Farm Foundation forum forum on Tuesday.
“We haven’t abandoned the RFS and we aren’t going to — ever,” retorted Trump representative Sam Clovis.
According to a report at Successful Farming, Johnson and Clovis also sparred over farm trade with China but were united in opposing the introduction of supply management or land set-asides as mechanisms to boost commodity prices after years of bumper crops.
The USDA estimates crop and livestock revenue this year will be the lowest in a decade while record-large federal payments provide 36% of net farm income.
Read the full report here.
