Leaders of Iowa farm commodity and biofuels groups have called on President Trump to force the E-P-A to follow the deal on ethanol and biodiesel that Trump struck with the industry a dozen days ago. Kelly Nieuwenhuis, a farmer from Primghar who is board president of the Sioux Center ethanol plant that has shut down joined the event by phone. He told reporters President Trump “has lost a lot of support” over his administration’s approach to ethanol policy.

Nieuwenhuise called the E-P-A draft on ethanol and biodiesel blending requirements “pretty disgusting.” E-P-A officials, in revealing details of their ethanol and biodiesel policies for 2020, said their action “fulfills the agreement reached on October 4th with the White House, E-P-A and U-S-D-A.”