Seth Meyer has spent more than two decades in agricultural economics research, but he had never seen anything like what the ethanol industry experienced last year.
DES MOINES - Gov. Kim Reynolds is proposing to ratchet up the ethanol mandate in Iowa, drawing praise from the biofuels industry but concerns from others over extra cost and less consumer choice.
Iowa s renewable fuels industry accounted for almost $4 billion or about 2 percent of Iowa s gross domestic product in 2020, according to a report commissioned by the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association.