However, offering E15 year-round permanently wouldn’t just help consumers, but corn growers as well. “America's corn farmers and really farmers of all major row crops are experiencing a really challenging economic time,” Lesly Weber McNitt, National Corn Growers Association vice president of public policy, said. “I call it our North Star, and we see year round E15 as not only our top legislative priority, but one of the most in reach opportunities to drive that demand, you know at its essence.” Corn growers and the NCGA have been pushing for the ethanol blend to stay at the pumps well into the summer months without needing an emergency waiver. For the past several years the EPA has issued emergency waivers allowing E15 to be at the pumps throughout the summer. The EPA recently issued the 2026 emergency waiver and while it was welcomed, many in the industry hope to not need an emergency waiver each year to keep E15 at the gas station. According to Weber McNitt, there has been ...