Over the weekend, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina told 150 farmers at the Iowa Corn Growers annual conference that federal regulatory malfeasance is destroying agriculture in California, reports the Des Moines Register.
“I have seen the agriculture industry almost destroyed in the state of California. By bad policies and bad politics,” said Fiorina, the former Hewlett Packard CEO. “We have seen industry after industry after industry decimated; we are seeing the most productive agricultural land in the world – in the Central Valley of California – being destroyed by the Environmental Protection Agency.”
Fiorina also called for an end of the Renewable Fuels Mandate, which sets the amount of corn ethanol blended into the U.S. gasoline supply and is an issue of particular concern to Iowa corn farmers. She said the mandate should not be renewed once it expires in 2022.