Longtime U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley had an instrumental role in closing a loophole that prevented biofuels producers from qualifying for COVID relief funds.
The Iowa Republican tells Brownfield he helped craft language in the latest coronavirus relief package that makes it clear some of the money can be used to support ethanol plants.
“What we were running into with other money, both March money (from the CARES Act) and what we’ve talked about since then, trying to get (Ag Secretary) Perdue to say that some of it would be given ethanol (is) he never told us no.
