Good News for Ethanol 

By: From Editor Karen McMahon

Ethanol Fans and motor buffs, take note of an automotive research project just completed at Minnesota State University, Mankato. The project compared...

Catch our new biofuels blog! 

Read the latest inside news on the biofuels industry in the “BioFuel Lines” blog by Lynn Grooms...

Seeds for energy 

By: By Lynn Grooms

A New Provision in the 2008 Farm Bill's Energy Title could be just the incentive some producers need to test growing biomass for huge renewable energy...

Biofuels Corn and Beyond 

By: By Lynn Grooms

In December, the U.S. ethanol industry was reported to be producing up to 7.3 billion gallons of ethanol annually. Figuring that it takes one bushel of...

ATV goes "green" 

Arctic Cat introduces a diesel ATV that will run on biodiesel. The ATV is powered with a fuel-efficient, 700cc, twin-cylinder diesel engine that runs on six forms of diesel...

Bumps on the ethanol highway 

By: BY DAVID HEST

Questions about the corn ethanol industry's profitability are beginning to slip into news coverage that, on the whole, continues to be overwhelmingly positive...

FIRST 100% BIODIESEL PUMPS 

ONE OF the country's top producers of biodiesel, Iowa is the first state to offer pumps with 100% biodiesel. The Prairie Land Co-op has installed B100...

PRICE PREDICTIONS 

By: By Edward Clark

IF YOU still need to buy nitrogen fertilizer for this growing season, there is good news on the price front: It appears that prices for the fertilizer...

BIODIESEL'S BOOM 

By: By Peg Zenk

IT'S NOT unusual to stumble a bit before you hit your stride. That's how analysts are characterizing what happened in the booming biodiesel business this...

TEARLESS TIER 3 

By: FROM SENIOR EDITOR WAYNE WENZEL

WAS I the only one cheering at the news of stricter EPA off-road diesel emissions standards? Seems all I heard about the issue for most of the past five...