In this podcast, Rick Tolman, CEO of the National Corn Growers Association, talks about the contrived "food versus fuel" issue. He notes some people didn't learn lessons from the the last time this came up and that "a lot of it is just an excuse to raise prices."Tolman noted several studies (like this and this and this) came out stating that corn/ethanol had little to do with food prices - and that we'll just have to work through this process again. "The impact of commodity prices on food prices is minimal and way overstated," he said.
He also provides some background on the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance, a group made up of 25 national farm agriculture groups. "It's a bold effort," he said.
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