Equation for green farming 

By: By David Hest

If You want to farm green, two decisions about how you grow your crops are likely to have the biggest impact on achieving your goal how much tillage you...

Bakers vs. Wheat Farmers 

By: From Guest Editor Allen Skogen

Wheat Growers have a message for America's baking industry: We told you so. For years, farmers warned that the milling and baking industry was pursuing...

Cash from carbon 

By: By Mark Moore

Tom Recker doesn't consider himself on the cutting edge. But this Alta Vista, IA, producer already has two years of experience in the emerging carbon...

Ethanol roots 

By: By John Kestner

Almost Daily some news item or commentary confirms just how far ethanol has entered our consciousness. The price of ethanol futures contracts in Chicago...

Why Blame Meat? 

By: From Editor Karen McMahon

A Good farm economy apparently attracts plenty of critics. A recent article in the New York Times, called Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler, takes jabs at our...

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...

Carbon credit contracts open 

Growers may now apply for five-year carbon credits with AgraGate Climate Credits Corp...

Powered by the wind 

By: By Lynn Grooms

If you have ever thought about installing a small wind turbine on your farm to generate some of your own electricity, you are not alone. Last year, approximately...

Suitable Cellulose 

By: By Lynn Grooms

If you want to benefit from cellulosic ethanol production, it is not too early to evaluate where your operation might fit into the picture. Over the next four years, the Department of Energy (DOE) will...

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...