Cruisers ST. LOUIS, 111. Darrell Mortland expects a lot of drive bys. In fact, he’s hoping for them. Calhoun County, Illinois, sits slightly more than a stone’s throw northeast of the St. Louis metropolitan area and its 2.5 million residents. City dwellers escaping for an afternoon often meander along Calhoun Coun ty’s winding roads soaking up the sights, sounds and smells of country life. This summer, some day trippers will take home a new appreciation for ethanol. Mort land, who is area manager for Jersey County Farm Supply a Growmark member affiliate in the Calhoun County town of Hardin is encouraging far mers to proudly display their support for the home-grown fuel. "Calhoun County is a small agricultural community,” said Mortland. “But the more the public sees farmers are com mitted to using ethanol, the greater their support. 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The 18-inch by 24-inch sign reads, “This farm uses 10 percent ethanol. I grow it; I use it.” The signs are com pliments of the Illinois Com Growers Association. Posting a sign is only a small step in building broad-based support for ethanol, acknow ledges Mortland. But he points out public support for cleaner fuels is growing. And com growers are among those to benefit. Illinois recently granted a tax advantage to ethanol, which makes a 90-octane 10 percent ethanol-blended fuel equivalent in price to 87-oc tane gasoline for Mortland’s customers. “Now when my patrons choose ethanol, they help themselves as com growers, they help the environment and they’re purchasing a premium product for a reasonable price,” he said. 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Mortland is supplying the complimentary sets to cus tomers as they reach the 1,000 the final regulations to imple ment the Clean Air Act. NCGA will have to work even harder than we did a year ago to ensure that the new administra tion understands the benefits of using ethanol and the impor tance of this market to com far mers.” said NCGA President Randy Cruise, a farmer from Pleasanton, Neb. “We have the advantage of solid scientific evidence to back out position and the com mitment of the NCGA mem bership to doggedly pursue this issue,” Cruise said. NCGA membership is expected to be “geared up” to do whatever it takes to protect this expanding maiket for agri culture. With the final rule on reformulated gasoline expected to be issued in mid-August, it could be another “long hot sumemr” for ethanol. 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He emphasizes that many Growmark-afflliated FS com panies .hroughout Illinois, lowa, and Wisconsin are run ning special promotion prog rams for ethanol. “Our prog ram isn’t the most extensive, but we have the advantage of being on the fringe of an urban area, which makes it even more pressing that we promote etha nol,” said Mortland. In the past five years, Growmark-affiliated compa nies have sold more than 250 million gallons of 10-percent ethanol-blended fuel and sales are growing about 10 percent each year. That steady growth suits Mortland just fine. He intends to keep the Calhoun County ethanol promotion program running indefinitely. In fact, this summer he hopes to have FS employees avail able to help farmers get their ethanol signs posted where the road cruisers will see them. Ethanol's one good bargain everyone should know about, believes Mortland. 7 It. by 10 It weighing platform aasUy handles tandam axles. 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