Corn usage for ethanol production during 2010-11 was increased by 50 million bushels to 5.000 billion bushels when compared with the March estimate and is 9.5 percent greater than the 4.568 billion bushels in 2009-10, according to the “World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates” report issued today by USDA’s World Agricultural Outlook Board.
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The National Chicken Council, U.S. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY), and the National Turkey Federation have joined the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) in a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) authority to implement a program based on flawed assumptions that EPA has failed to address which could also destroy agricultural jobs in the Chesapeake Bay region.
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