Ethanol from stover 

By: By Lynn Grooms

Corn stover could provide as much as 20% of the feedstocks needed for ethanol production by 2030. But is corn stover sustainable? Will growers be able...

Concept Cob Collectors 

By: By Jodie Wehrspann

In the search for cellulosic feedstocks, one source seems to be rising to the top in the nation's Corn Belt: corncobs. Why cobs? Why now? They're available....

Big Think 

By: By Lynn Grooms, Mark Moore, Karen McMahon and Jodie Wehrspann

When Mike Boehlje speaks, people listen. The distinguished professor in agricultural economics at Purdue...

Catch our new biofuels blog! 

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

Ethanol industry 

I read your editorial on John McCain's position on the ethanol industry [“Ethanol Takes a Hit,” October 2008]...

Too much ethanol? 

By: By Lynn Grooms

This Has been a roller coaster year for the corn ethanol industry. Some of the largest ethanol producers delayed start-up of ethanol plants, and some...

Ethanol takes a hit 

By: From Editor Karen McMahon

It's Not often that farmers and their farm groups have the opportunity to put on a big party for politicians. So the AgNite celebration held in Minneapolis,...

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...

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...

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...