Agribusiness Update for Wednesday 6/26/13

This is the Agribusiness Update...I’m Greg Martin...

The Supreme Court decided Monday not to hear the American Petroleum Institute and other ethanol opponents’ challenges to E-15 - which Growth Energy says is a true victory for the American biofuels industry. Time and again - Growth Energy CEO Tom Buis says Big Oil has challenged E-15 and Growth Energy’s Green Jobs Waiver in attempts to deny consumers a choice and savings at the pump.

The Senate has been waiting to take up the immigration reform legislation - and this week they are doing just that. Senate Democratic leaders would like to pass a bill before the one-week break which is scheduled to begin Friday. The Senate will consider and debate various proposals to reform immigration including a path to citizenship for 11-million undocumented immigrants.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association provided an overview of antibiotics used in food-producing animals as part of its Beef 101 series to more than 70 Congressional staff members. Dr. Mike Apley discussed common myths about antibiotic use - including the misconception that 70-percent of antibiotics used in the U.S. for human and animal uses are used for non-therapeutic use in food animals.

That’s today’s Agribusiness Update from the Ag Information Network.