{"id":142087,"date":"2018-04-04T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=142087"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:22:08","slug":"ndfu-family-farmers-take-hit-epa-exemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=142087","title":{"rendered":"NDFU:  Family farmers take hit, EPA exemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-126048\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WatneMark1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WatneMark1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WatneMark1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WatneMark1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 \u2014 \u00a0The North Dakota Farmers Union says that family farmers and the Renewable Fuel Standard took a hit on Tuesday, as the Environmental Protection Agency exempted one of the nation\u2019s largest oil refining companies from complying with the biofuels regulation. Hardship waivers were granted to three Andeavor refineries despite the corporation\u2019s net profits of nearly $1.5 billion last year.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota Farmers Union President Mark Watne says the move is unfortunate, considering the low commodity prices and overall decline in farm income. The Trump administration had previously voiced support for renewable fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Watne says, \u201cFarmers are told to get prices from the marketplace, yet our government is creating a market atmosphere that reduces demand and causes prices to drop. When farmers need this administration the most, we are getting broken promises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For refineries producing less than 75,000 barrels a day, a hardship waiver exempts those that can demonstrate they suffer a \u201cdisproportionate economic hardship\u201d from RFS compliance costs. The waivers come at a time of uncertainty in agriculture with ongoing farm bill negotiations and trade woes with China.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watne adds, \u201cWe need new demand, a new farm bill and no cuts to crop insurance \u2014 not strategies that further the economic pain to our farm families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 \u2014 \u00a0The North Dakota Farmers Union says that family farmers and the Renewable Fuel Standard took a hit on Tuesday, as the Environmental Protection Agency exempted one of the nation\u2019s largest oil refining companies from complying with the biofuels regulation. Hardship waivers were granted to three Andeavor refineries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142088,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142087\/revisions\/142088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}