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Ethanol means more to Nebraska and the United States as a whole than reducing the dependence on foreign oil or making a clean burning, renewable fuel available to everyone.
“It’s about small town diners, grocery stores, schools, libraries and churches,” said Don Hutchens, executive director of the Nebraska Corn Board. “Ethanol, by being produced across rural Nebraska and rural America, benefits all of these community-based businesses and groups. It does this by generating economic activity and taxes, which touches nearly every business, school and organization in town.”
For additional information on the economic impact of ethanol, click here.
Besides the economic benefits to rural communities created by the clean-burning fuel, ethanol adds to our fuel supply and reduces oil imports. This saves us all money at the pump – about 40-50 cents per gallon, according to several studies.
Did you know corn farmers are proving the sustainability of moder corn production by producing more with less every year? Farmers have reduced the fertilizer used to produce a bushel of corn by 36% in the last thirty years. In fact, we produce over 5 times more corn today than in the 1930's on 20% less land.
Governor Dave Heineman declared September Renewable Fuels Awareness Month at Husker Harvest Days on Sept. 16. Governor Heineman is shown in this photo after the proclamation ceremony with Gregg Fujan, chairman of the Nebraska Soybean Board (right), and Alan Tiemann, chairman of the Nebraska Corn Board (left). For more information on the 2009 declaration, click here.
Videos of the event are available on the Nebraska Corn Kernel's YouTube channel and can be seen by clicking on one of the links below:
Governor Heineman's Comments
Alan Tiemann's Comments
Gregg Fujan's Comments
To help spread the positive news about corn farmer's "Sustaining Innovation" the Nebraska Corn Board and Nebraska Corn Growers Association are conducting the "Sustaining Innovation" campaign targeting Lincoln and Omaha. This is part of a much larger, national campaign by multi states as part of the Corn Farmers Coalition. To hear the ads click here.
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