Harvest BioFuels LLC of Dallas, Texas, plans to build three ethanol plants in north-central Iowa that could produce 300 million gallons of the fuel a year, the company announced Wednesday.
Construction of a plant near Galbraith in eastern Kossuth County is scheduled to begin in April and is expected to be completed by June 2008. Construction [...]
Farmers are getting the best prices for corn in more than a decade amid strong demand for ethanol and feed, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Monday.
Average corn prices for the year were forecast at $2.90 to $3.30 a bushel, up 10 cents from last month’s estimate, according to the monthly crop report.
“We think about [...]
The ethanol industry’s growing appetite for corn has pushed prices for the grain to their highest levels in a decade amid a surge that agricultural experts say could lead farmers next spring to plant their largest corn crop in 60 years.
Farmers who plant more corn in 2007, however, will be betting that the nation’s burgeoning [...]
The ethanol industry’s growing appetite for corn has pushed prices for the grain to their highest levels in a decade amid a surge that agricultural experts say could lead farmers next spring to plant their largest corn crop in 60 years.
Farmers who plant more corn in 2007, however, will be betting that the nation’s burgeoning [...]
Thirteen solar panels on the roof at Café Regis weren’t producing much power during the season’s first heavy snowfall.
But on a sunny day, the solar array can put a serious dent in the number of kilowatt-hours of electricity the restaurant buys from NorthWestern Energy.
“We use a lot of electricity,” said Café Regis manager Martha A. [...]
Ethanol may not be the energy panacea many in Hawai’i had hoped for.
Producing the biofuel from sugar cane would help move Hawai’i away from dependence on imported oil while invigorating the farm industry.
Sounds great, but making it happen is far from simple.
The barriers to producing ethanol locally include:
# Building production plants.
# Getting water rights switched [...]
Agroup of Maryland grain farmers who have been trying to push ahead with plans to build the state’s first ethanol production plant can be forgiven for feeling as though they are pursuing an elusive objective.
“We thought we would be further along than we are at this time, but we are working at it,” Eastern Shore [...]
