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I got an interesting opinion from an outsider to Ag this week. He felt that the grain producers with government’s assistance have thrown livestock producers to the wolves. He noted that Sen. Tom Harkin, chair of the Ag committee, from Iowa the largest corn producing state and pork producing state, had forged and pushed legislation and subsidies for ethanol made from corn to escalate high prices of corn and soybeans knowing good and well it would hurt the livestock side of the equation. In his opinion it seemed as though there was a rational it was more important to help the energy crisis by importing the nation’s needs for meats and sacrificing the livestock industry and prop up the grain and energy industries.
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