Achieving balanced food and fuel policy is essential to increasing energy independence while maintaining food affordability.

Freeze the Federal Mandate for Ethanol Production: The federal mandate for biofuel production should not be increased until alternative fuels are developed that are not made from food or feedstuffs.

Remove Import Tariffs: Market forces should be allowed to come to bear on shaping the most viable biofuels for America’s future. Tariffs distort the marketplace and should be allowed to expire.

Blender’s Subsidy: Subsidies and tax credits for energy sources generated from food or feedstuffs should be equally available among all forms of energy and source neutral as a means to grow opportunities for all forms of advanced energy sources.

Renewable Energy and Byproduct Research Neutrality: Federal research funding should not favor one type of renewable energy over others. Federal research funding should be provided broadly to research renewable energy technologies, economics, and by product safety, quality and usability.

Emerging Bio-Energy Mandates For Non-Feedstocks: New bio-energy mandates (such as increasing the RFS) should be limited to energy from emerging bio-based sources (i.e. cellulosic, methane) that do not adversely impact animal feed availability.

Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Flexibility: Policymakers should provide producers regulatory and legislative policy options to elect out of CRP to respond to market forces. Support a working lands approach to reintroduce acres into crop production. 

Energy Infrastructure Incentives: We support the growth of agriculture-based energy infrastructure.  Infrastructure incentives should be source/feed stock and renewable energy neutral.