Weekend Thread: SOOie! Iowa Ag Summit [Y-not]

Many of the 2016 GOP hopefuls attended the Iowa Agricultural Summit this weekend.

Some were well-received:

(More here)

Some... not so much:

Heh.

You can read more about the Ag Summit at the Washington Examiner.

By the way, it's been reported that Scott Walker now supports the federal ethanol mandate:

In the moderated discussion with ethanol entrepreneur Bruce Rastetter, Walker dropped his flat opposition to ethanol mandates, a new stance that's well suited to a state covered in cornfields. Instead, Walker signaled he favored keeping the mandate for now and phasing it out over time.

"I do believe it's an access issue so it's something I'm willing to go forward on renewing a (federal) Renewable Fuel Standard...so farmers going forward planting crops know what the standard is," Walker said, adding that he wanted to "get to a point where you address some of those market access issues...so you no longer need some of the subsidies."

If so, this seems to differ from his earlier position. (Link to the Saturday Politics Thread on ethanol here.)

Meanwhile, here's a brief report on how Rick Perry was received. (He still opposes a Federal ethanol mandate.)

Open thread.

posted by Open Blogger at 12:27 PM

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