- Farmers have been infuriated at the Trump administration's decision to grant waivers exempting 31 oil refineries from rules requiring them to blend corn-based ethanol into gasoline.
- As a result, national and state trade groups have delivered letters to the White House over the past 48 hours detailing the damage the waivers have caused the biofuel industry.
- Farmers, which are seeing crop prices hit hard by a trade war with China, have also complained that the recent government crop report did not reflect damage from historic flooding this spring.