US livestock producers are waging an uphill battle to curtail ethanol blending requirements and free up more corn amid one of the farm belt’s worst droughts in decades. The fight is divid- ing agriculture state officials and show- ing that when it comes to protecting farming and ranching interests, political party lines that normally guide energy policy crumble. The livestock and poul- try industries are provoking the drought dustup with corn growers and ethanol producers.
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