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...

The Next Fuel? 

By: FROM THE EDITOR KAREN MCMAHON

A NEW 7 series BMW automobile today cruises the autobahns of Germany, showing the world that a new type of fuel can meet high performance standards while...

Wind power your future 

By: By Katie Sauck

Midwest Farmers and landowners are getting involved in the fastest-growing electricity source in the world: wind energy. Wind power has the potential...

Easy to be green 

By: By Katie Sauck

Twenty percent of the CO2 pollution in the United States comes from the Midwest, according to the Environmental Law and Policy Center, so it's no surprise...

Cleaner air could increase global warming 

By: Wayne Wenzel

Carbon sequestration in crops may offer solution...

Energy project money available 

Growers who want to invest in on-farm energy projects may apply for a grant or loan from USDA to help offset the cost. The federal Farm Bill includes...

Livestock department 

Utility tractor lifting. Heat-tolerant phytase. New cattle insecticide....

Energy project money available  

Growers who want to invest in on-farm energy projects may apply for a grant or loan from USDA to help offset the cost. ...

Harvest the wind 

By: by Wayne Wenzel

The U.S. Department of Energy's Wind Powering of America Initiative has a goal of providing at least 5% of the nation's electricity from wind by 2020. Representing more than a five fold increase from current levels, most of those new wind turbines will be constructed in Midwest farm country....

Links in the food chain 

By: by Joan Olson

Despite bankruptcy filings by some of the nation's largest farm co-ops, farmers have not abandoned cooperative efforts to add value to their production.