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Corn Growers Tackle Land Use Issue

The National Corn Growers Association is taking on the issue of indirect land use at a conference in St. Louis on August 25-26.

NCGA’s Corn Ethanol Land Use Conference will include sessions on a number of topics, including land use change, nitrous oxide, new technologies and their effect on greenhouse gas emissions, domestic and international yields, satellite data and land conversion greenhouse gas emission factors, defining renewable biomass, and distillers grains.

NCGA first vice president Darrin Ihnen says the conference is timely and important. “We want to make sure that EPA and CARB and others are using sound science to develop their models, and today we don’t think they’re doing that,” said Ihnen. “They’re using people that don’t necessarily have the expertise that are just writing comments that are kind of what I call out there that aren’t factual so we want to bring them back in line with what the science says and what can be proven instead of using methodology and go about it that way.”

Listen to an interview with Darrin Ihnen by Domestic Fuel reporter Joanna Schroeder here:

Registration for the event at the Renaissance St. Louis Hotel-Airport is still available online at NCGA’s website. The cost is $250 per person.