Ag Web (Philadelphia, Nov. 5) – In October, President Donald Trump announced he wants gasoline with 15 percent ethanol, typically referred to as E15, to be available 12 months of the year. However, one economist isn’t sure year-round sales of E15 will help work through the massive corn stocks on hand or even the increase in corn acres expected for 2019. “I don’t think it will help the balance sheet this year,” says Scott Irwin, an agricultural economist at Illinois. “And I’m not confident for next year.”
