From the AP Wire

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nebraska hog producer Joy Philippi says livestock farmers "are having jitters" over ethanol, worried there won't be enough corn left for the pigs.
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Join the crowd, the beef industry is worried about the certain increase in corn prices that will result from the use of corn as the primary ethanol source. We already have so many staple uses for corn, and the US is the only country that produces corn on an industrial level.

But there is some good news:

A bill expected to win bipartisan approval Wednesday from the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee would require 36 billion gallons of ethanol be used annually by 2022, including 20 billion gallons made from feedstock other than corn - such as switch grasses, wood chips, corn stems and leaves.
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We can only hope.

-the Progressive Conservative

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