Ethanol Podcast From NAFB

Because of activity in the Senate, RFA President Bob Dinneen was unable to make it to the National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) annual meeting in Kansas City Thursday, but Matt Hartwig handled the interviews with dozens of farm broadcasters quite handily.

When I caught up with Matt around noon he had already done about 20 interviews on a variety of topics from legislation to the state of the industry and the future.

The lack of movement on the energy bill, and the potential for adding a Renewable Fuels Standard to the 2007 Farm Bill as an amendment, was a big topic of discussion.

“Our biggest concern is getting the RFS passed,” Matt says. “We think that’s very important not only to the industry, but also to the nation as a whole.”

“If the farm bill turns out to be the vehicle that moves the RFS, that’s okay,” he continued. “But we believe that the RFS should be part of an energy bill and it should be passed by Congress and sent to the president’s desk as soon as they can possibly get it done.”

Listen to all of Matt’s comments here in the “Ethanol Report” podcast.

Listen to the podcast here: Ethanol Report 2 (7:00 MP3 file)