date:Aug 11, 2012
up paying more than $9.50 per bushel throughout the 2012-13 crop year to meet their feed needs, translating into billions of dollars in added costs for poultry producers, the groups said. These additional costs will either be passed on to consumers through increased food prices, or poultry farmers will be forced out of business.
Members of Congress joined the effort to get EPA to issue a waiver to the RFS when a bipartisan group of 156 US Representatives and 25 US Senators wrote letters to EPA