Bio-energy programs get $625 million in farm law funding

Congress included $625 million in guaranteed funding for bio-energy programs in the 2014 farm policy law, says Jonathan Coppess of U-Illinois at farmdoc daily. The three largest allotments of the mandatory funding are $250 million got the Rural Energy for America Program at $250 million, a bio-processing assistance program at $200 million, and the Biomass Crop… » Read More

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