USDA Releases More Details of $700 Million in Aid to Biofuels Industry hit by pandemic

The only major new element is payments to 195 biofuel production facilities. . .

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The only major new element is payments to 195 biofuel production facilities to “support the maintenance and viability of a significant market for agricultural producers of products such as corn, soybean or biomass that supply biofuel production. These biofuel producers experienced unexpected market losses on a combined 3.7 billion gallons as a result of Covid–19.”

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