Changes to RFS could result in 'demand destruction'
Story Date: 4/11/2018

 

Source: Mario Parker, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 4/10/18



Based on his own back-of-the-envelope calculations, Minnesota farmer Kirby Hettver could lose tens of thousands of dollars of earnings because of President Donald Trump. But damaging as the brewing trade war with China may turn out to be for Hettver and other American soybean farmers, he says the greater financial impact could come if Trump moves ahead with changes to the U.S. ethanol mandate, known as the Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS.

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