Advocates and experts have converged in Washington, D.C. this week for Growth Energy’s annual Biofuels Summit to advocate for biofuels in our nation’s capital. To help prepare for them for their meetings, we invited U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), and U.S. Representative Cheri Bustos (D-17-IL) to speak on the importance of ethanol for our rural communities: