(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley applauds news the U-S Trade Representative plans to formally dispute Mexico’s proposed ban on genetically-modified corn from the U-S. If those imports to Mexico are cut off, Grassley says it’ll mean millions of tons of Iowa corn won’t have a key buyer. Mexico’s proposed ban on G-M-O corn would begin in January of 2024.

Grassley says such a ban would have “a devastating impact” on farmers across America and in Iowa. Grassley calls Mexico’s proposed ban “ridiculous,” and one report says it would effectively phase out the import of 90-percent of U-S corn by January.

Grassley’s office says Iowa corn growers export 16-million tons of corn to Mexico each year, and over the last decade, one-quarter of all U-S corn exports went to Mexico, totaling nearly three-billion dollars of revenue per year.