Confirming Environmental Friendliness
Posted: June 6, 2009
I visited the National Corn Growers Association office this week to catch up with some of the staff. My visit included chatting with Jamey Cline who recently joined the staff to work in the biofuels and business development areas.
We visited about the current status of the industry and what the priorities are now for NCGA. I thought it was interesting that even though organizations like NCGA have had to devote time and resources to responding to a lot of the misinformation campaigns about ethanol, they’ve learned a lot through the process. Jamey says “We found just how much of an environmental steward the farmer really is. We found just how environmentally friendly ethanol is. And we found out we really didn’t cause much increase in cost at the grocery store.” He says it was nice to have that confirmed by sound science.
Some of the current projects Jamey says NCGA is working on include research projects on water use, environmental impact of fertilizer, implementation of RFS2 regulations, hypoxia and food prices. That sounds like a lot of work but when concluded it will really add to the knowledge base that the industry and consumers have about corn production and use.
Listen to my interview with Jamey here:
