Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit with Iowa Corn — Jenni Richards, District Field Manager for the Iowa Corn Growers Association and wife of Chris Richards, Richards & Son Agri Supply, attended an event with Alyssa Preston to advocate for Iowa Corn and Renewable Fuels.
(Pat Curtis, Radio Iowa, Des Moines) - Iowa Renewable Fuels Association executive director Monte Shaw says Iowa’s 43 ethanol plants churned out a record amount of the corn-based fuel additive this year.
“We’re excited that we exceeded our previous record and exceeded 4 billion gallons of ethanol production in 2015. That was up a bit over last year (3.9 billion gallons),” Shaw said. Iowa produced about 27-percent of the nation’s ethanol...... read more |