Jul 1, 2009 8:00 AM
Several recreational trade associations have recently called on members to contact the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and ask it not to implement a proposed waiver that will allow ethanol blends in gasoline to be increased from 10 percent to 15 percent. ...
Jun 30, 2009 10:30 AM, By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Barley production in the upper Southeast could be a boon to grain farmers, but perhaps it could also help pull the livestock industry out of a tailspin that began when corn and other grain feeds soared in price the past two years....
Jun 29, 2009 10:00 AM, By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
With hearings on biofuels coming fast and furious, the Renewable Fuels Association has offered a preview of its approach to the EPA proposed rulemaking for the Renewable Fuel Standard....
Jun 22, 2009 9:35 AM
Fuel isn’t the only product derived from petroleum. ...
Jun 22, 2009 9:28 AM
The United Soybean Board (USB) and soybean checkoff will have the help of seven U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) affiliated Clean Cities chapters to communicate the benefits of soy biodiesel this summer....
Jun 18, 2009 12:57 PM, By Ann Ryan
University of Tennessee
Thirty-eight area farmers have received acceptance letters into the University of Tennessee’s second season of a switchgrass farmer incentive program. ...
Jun 15, 2009 9:50 AM, By Stu Hudson
University of Florida
Plans for a new cellulosic ethanol research and demonstration plant to be built by the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences are being revamped for a location closer to Gainesville....
News from the Farm BillHouse votes to suspend base acre provisionSep 26, 2008 9:14 AM The House passed legislation supported by both parties that would suspend for the 2008 and 2009 crop years a farm bill provision that required producers to have a minimum of 10-base acres to receive program benefits. ... Senators, ag secretary spar over ACRE provisionsSep 16, 2008 10:21 AM, By Forrest Laws A group of farm-state senators led by Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin is asking Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer to stop trying to re-write the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 through the regulations implementing the new farm bill.... ACRE could be boon or bust for southern farmersJul 15, 2008 9:34 AM, By Forrest Laws The chairmen of the House and the Senate Agriculture Committees and the Bush administration couldn’t find much to agree on in the 2008 farm bill. ... Farm bill, flooding: Economist Daryll RayJul 9, 2008 9:57 AM, By David Bennett After the first round of producer organization-sponsored farm bill meetings, Southeast farmers still have plenty of questions about the new legislation.... |
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