Washington Report

With the ethanol tax credit scheduled to sunset on December 31, 2011, a new group has been organized to have Congress reverse its action on the subsidy for blending ethanol with gasoline.

U.S. farmland prices are setting records and farmer incomes have been buoyed by biofuels and exports, despite the sputtering economy, easing the pain of the challenging summer weather that included drought, floods, and fires.