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Biofuel imports anger farmers

For U.S. agriculture, the energy gold rush is on, and Minnesota’s pioneering biodiesel and ethanol producers are in the thick of it. But suddenly, they have foreign competition.

A ship loaded with South American biodiesel pulled into a Florida port this month, and immediately qualified for a new U.S. biodiesel tax break. For the homegrown biofuels industry, it was a shocking notice that their domestic market had gone global.

..Ethanol, too, is confronting import challenges. Latin American nations reportedly are ramping up ethanol production for possible export. Suddenly, U.S. farmers are nervous, just when it seemed that the promised land for biofuels was in sight.

“Why would we want to trade our farmers, our jobs, our communities, our tax dollars and our energy security for another dependence on foreign ethanol or biofuels?” said Minnesota Farmers Union President Doug Peterson.

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