2023 Conservationist of Year and Year-Round E15 Advances
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update.
**Jon Jackson, founder of Comfort Farms in Milledgeville, has been named 2023 Conservationist of the Year, by the Georgia Association of Conservation Districts, for his outstanding contributions to natural resources conservation.
www.gfb.org reports after completing six deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, Jackson founded Comfort Farms, a 38-acre, 100% regenerative, working farm that helps veterans in crisis.
The farm produces a variety of vegetables and livestock and sells goods onsite.
www.gfb.org/news/ag-news/post/baldwin-county-s-jackson-named-georgia-conservationist-of-the-year
**The National Corn Growers Association praised an EPA decision that advances the request of several governors to allow the year-round sales of E15.
NCGA President Harold Wolle says allowing access to higher blends of ethanol year-round will play a critical role in helping the country meet its ambitious climate goals.
The request has been in limbo since the oil industry warned allowing E15 would cause supply chain issues and higher gas prices.
**The EPA announced it will restore the uses of chlorpyrifos and commit to a science-based review of the pesticide.
A pleased American Soybean Association director, Alan Meadows says EPA’s own science has repeatedly found there are at least 11 high-benefit, safe uses of chlorpyrifos.
The announcement is consistent with a November Eighth Circuit Cout decision that found EPA ignored its own scientists’ by ending numerous uses of chlorpyrifos they determined safe.
