Responding to President Obama's directive to expedite and increase the production of biofuels, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that USDA met its 30-day deadline to help produce more energy from homegrown, renewable sources....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Millions of viewers saw Brazilian race car driver Helio Castroneves cross the finish line first at the Indianapolis 500 a couple of weeks ago. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Collin Peterson remembers the first ethanol boom in the 1970s. ...
By Sharon Dowdy
University of Georgia
Corn and soybeans are excellent crops for use in ethanol and biodiesel production, but chickens, cows and people like to eat the crops, too. ...
An ongoing effort asking scientists from around the world to pledge their support for biodiesel is getting quick results....
Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture & Industries Ron Sparks, along with State Representatives John Knight and Thad McClammy, Alabama State University President William Harris, and Montgomery Public Schools (MPS) Superintendent Clay Slagle, have announced a three-way partnership regarding the establishment of a “Save the Environment” program, which will produce biodiesel from recycled cooking oils for use in MPS busses and other diesel-powered equipment....
The National Corn Growers Association has thanked President Obama for his statement that advanced renewable transportation fuels will be one of the nation’s most important industries of the 21st Century, and that corn-based ethanol must remain viable to achieve this vision....
By Patricia McDaniels
University of Tennessee
Converting biomass into affordable and useable fuel is among the nation’s national security priorities, and the University of Tennessee is becoming recognized as a leader in the effort....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
About the time former presidential hopeful Al Gore was picking up his Nobel Peace Prize for scaring the bejeebers out of people about global warming, he was being criticized in Tennessee for the huge amounts of energy being consumed by his mansion in the exclusive Belle Meade subdivision of Nashville....
Farmers may be able to produce more switchgrass — and thus make cellulosic ethanol production more economically viable — than previously expected....
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