NCGA DEFENDS ETHANOL 

SHOULD solar energy shining down on crops be considered an energy expenditure when figuring the net energy gain of producing ethanol from corn? Most reasonable...

ENERGY BILL BOOSTS ETHANOL 

ETHANOL PLANT owners and corn growers have plenty to smile about with the newly signed Energy Bill. The Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) included in the...

UNREALIZED POTENTIAL 

By: FROM THE EDITOR KAREN McMAHON

THIS SPRING'S high gas prices must give plenty of corn and soybean growers heartburn. Paying more than $2/gal. is painful, especially when the fields...

E85 pump in Iowa 

Vehicles capable of burning fuel with 85% ethanol can now fill up with E85 at the Heart of Iowa Co-op in Nevada, IA. ...

Nanotech fibers from ethanol 

By: Wayne Wenzel

Technology gurus, and even politicians such as Newt Gingrich, are pointing to nanotechnology as a force that will change our world. But to become reality,...

Crops department 

Discipline insecticide for corn. Aphid recommendations. Pioneer sells weather radios. Water-based Prowl. Gene bank support. Ready for soybean rust. Spring wheat variety. RR alfalfa in 2005. New corn herbicide....

Feeding distillers' grain 

The growth in ethanol plants throughout the Midwest has increased the need for good distillers' grain feed guidelines. University trials are under way...

Livestock department 

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

Nanotech fibers from ethanol 

By: by Wayne Wenzel

Corn farmers could supply the building blocks of the future....

Feeding distillers’ grain  

The growth in ethanol plants throughout the Midwest has increased the need for good distillers’ grain feed guidelines. ...