Capitol Hill and Washington, D.C. are abuzz with “green” energy. Green jobs, green restaurants and a green power plant are all the rage.
Well, it may be the new rage around here, but green was cool in Middle America long before official Washington jumped on the bandwagon.
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One of the stunt flying teams you'll see at this weekend's Sioux Falls Airshow is based out of Tea.
The "Vanguard Squardon" fly just feet apart from each other and perform all sorts of rolls, twists and turns.
And the fuel they use in their planes will be of particular interest to corn producers: the planes are powered by Ethanol.
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YORK — Nebraska corn farmers are partnering with Junction Motor Speedway to promote Ethanol Night at the Races during Junction Motor Speedway's Fifth-Annual O'Reilly POWRi Cornhusker Midget Challenge to be held Tuesday, July 28 and Wednesday, July 29.
Hamilton, York and Blue River corn grower associations, along with the Nebraska Corn Grower Association (NeCGA), are combining their efforts to be the title sponsor and promote corn ethanol during the two-day Cornhusker Challenge.
If you're looking for a way to beat the heat this summer, stay inside and log-on to your computer to play Barrel Blaster, a great online game from the folks at the American Coalition for Ethanol.
Read More.One Earth Energy, the ethanol plant that went online here late last month, is huge in several ways.
The $166 million facility on 84 acres includes 20,000 yards of concrete; 1.2 million feet of electrical wiring and 1,144 tons of steel.
The plant's economic impact is large because it employs 47 people and is a shot in the arm to the Ford County economy, still reeling from recent job losses, including those caused by this summer's shut down of the Baltimore Air Coil plant in nearby Paxton.
Read More.Two new technologies offer the promise that corn growers could turn their cobs into cash.
Cobs, the refuse left behind after harvest, are now plowed back into fields. But companies from California and South Dakota plan to start changing that by building two plants in Iowa, one to turn the material into ethanol and another to produce fertilizer.
"We're excited about it," corn farmer Jim Boyer said, "that there's an opportunity for another profit stream off our farm."
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Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson joined nine other Midwest governors in requesting the Environmental Protection Agency to increase ethanol blending limits to 15 percent.
The governors recently signed a letter sent to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson as part of public comment on proposed changes to federal rules.
That comment period, which began April 21, ends Monday.
The federally mandated blend level has been at 10 percent, or E10, since the 1970s.
For motorcycle aficionados, no summer is complete without the annual ride through South Dakota known as Sturgis. This year, this all-American tradition is being fueled by America’s #1 renewable fuel – ethanol. Sturgis takes place from July 31 – August 8 in Sturgis, South Dakota, in the shadow of the Black Hills. Read More.
After almost a year sitting idle, the new ethanol plant in Welcome is finally up and running.Facing financial difficulties, VeraSun Energy sold the plant to Valero Energy of Texas last spring.According to Valero spokesman Bill Day, the plant started grinding corn on June 30th and produced their first batch of ethanol last week Read More.
New research shows that prairie grasses grown using only moderate amounts of fertilizer on marginal land can produce significant amounts of ethanol.
The five-year study of switch grass done by the University of Nebraska and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service was published this week by the National Academy of Sciences.
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The Renewable Fuels Association is targeting motorcyclists and increasing its on-line presence with new marketing efforts. Read More.
Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Postal Service will replace 6,500 vehicles in its fleet with ethanol-capable, hybrid and four-cylinder vehicles.
The postal service will conduct a one-for-one replacement of the vehicles with 1,000 E85 ethanol-capable vehicles, and 900 gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles. The balance will consist of fuel-efficient four-cylinder models that will replace aging vehicles at postal offices and facilities across the country as the service continues to reduce the size of its fleet.
West Tennessee farmers are taking the first steps toward identifying switchgrass varieties suited for the Mid-South.
In late May, producers Tony Brannon and Andy Holt planted 5-acre test plots of EG 1101 and EG 1102, switchgrass varieties from Ceres, Inc., a California-based developer and marketer of switchgrass and high-biomass sorghum.
In his shoulder-high sugar cane field northwest of Jasper, McNeal Adams sees more than the stalks he grinds into syrup each winter.
The 66-year-old cane raiser visualizes a crop that could cut fuel costs and provide a new livelihood for East Texas -- raising sugar cane for ethanol.
By following Brazil's model for energy independence, the United States could turn sugar cane into a renewable fuel source, he said Thursday while walking between rows of cane, surrounded by walls of pine trees.
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Today, in a press announcement, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that she has included $2 million for clean energy algae biofuels research at Washington State University in the fiscal year 2010 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill. Read More.
