This week, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued an emergency declaration providing regulatory relief to commercial transporters of of heating fuel. That remains in effect until November 30. Nebraska Propane Gas Association Executive Director Lynne Schuller says the extremely wet year has hiked the propane demand by farmers drying their grain. She says a pipeline disruption also had an impact.

She says the price of propane went up a little bit but most of that has been previously contracted for.

Schuller says the emergency waiver helps propane suppliers get their product out to their customers.

Schuller says they have enough supply in Nebraska to be able to get that out to consumers for their heating needs and to farmers and ranchers for their production needs.