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USDA Rural Development Secretary Speaks Out

Hello and welcome to my first post here on Good Fuels. I’m attending the Corn Utilization and Technology Conference in Kansas City, MO. We’re going to be having some sessions that will focus on biofuels so I hope to have more to come. In the meantime, our USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development, Tom Dorr, provided the keynote address.

He told attendees that include corn growers as well as industry and university personnel that there are challenges ahead like the recent Grocery Manufacturers Association attack on ethanol. He says that’s making it difficult to get the facts out to the media. He said that no good deed goes unpunished and that we’ve had the good side of the cycle and now we’re going to have to suffer through the other side. He says it’s difficult to fight a well financed opponent that’s less inclined to deal with facts as opposed to dealing with emotion.

Before his keynote I did a short interview with Sec. Dorr which you can listen to here:

During his speech he made a great statement about the misinformation campaign that’s going on which he says “is unfortunate and it is destructive and I resent it, not only as a farmer but also as a policy person.”: