The United States suppressed biofuels and 300,000 corn farmers protested
American farmers have suffered from the trade war between China and the US, according to the Oriental Daily News, while the Trump administration's biofuel exemption law is further dampening farmers 'support for the government. Twenty-three leaders of the corn farmers 'group have written to Trump warning that the abolition of biofuels has reduced demand for corn and that several ethanol plants have been closed and more than 2,700 jobs lost, calling for a return to life.
The Environmental Protection Department granted another Thirty-one renewable fuel exemptions to small refineries last month, increasing the number of exemptions to 85. Organizations representing more than 300,000 corn farmers sent letters jointly, referring to ethanol factories in Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, etc., or closed or shut down, affecting the production of more than 300 million bushels of corn.