google.com - 7/17/2009
—
1 day ago DES MOINES, Iowa 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 ...
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com - 7/12/2009
—
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com —
In the wake of the plunge in gasoline
prices, far fewer people have been refueling with high...
ethanol blends this year in the Midwest -- although demand has recently begun to pick back up.
(more)
A Rough Year for High Ethanol Blends
Comments
Blog Reactions
Iowa plants to offer farmers cash for corn cobs
Peak Oil News —
... through the Biomass Crop Assistance Program. ...Meanwhile, San Francisco-based SynGest, Inc., plans to build an $80 million facility in Menlo, about 40 miles west of Des Moines, that will be the first to make ammonia fertilizer from corn cobs. The plant, expected to be completed by fall 2011, will process 130,000 tons of cobs per year into 50,000 tons of fertilizer, or enough for 100,000 acres of corn, SynGest CEO Jack Oswald said. Farmers would get about $50 per ton of cobs. AP "
An Extended Conversation with POET
R-Squared Energy Blog —
... RR: Another question from a reader: "Will they contract with producers and what will the terms be?" I think I know the answer to this, because I read an article yesterday in which Poet spokesman Nathan Schock said that this hasn't been determined. [RR: Here is the article: Iowa plants to offer farmers cash for corn cobs.] ...
An Extended Conversation with POET
The Energy Collective —
... RR: Another question from a reader: "Will they contract with producers and what will the terms be?" I think I know the answer to this, because I read an article yesterday in which Poet spokesman Nathan Schock said that this hasn't been determined. [RR: Here is the article: Iowa plants to offer farmers cash for corn cobs.] ...
Inside POET: A Conversation with the World's Largest Ethanol Producer
The Oil Drum —
... RR: Another question from a reader: "Will they contract with producers and what will the terms be?" I think I know the answer to this, because I read an article yesterday in which Poet spokesman Nathan Schock said that this hasn't been fully determined. [RR: Here is the article: Iowa plants to offer farmers cash for corn cobs.] ...
Related Content
Women lead a farming revolution in Iowa
features.csmonitor.com 2/27/2009 — Women own nearly half of Iowa’s farmland. But they find they have a common problem: The men they hire to farm their land often don’t treat it with the tender care they expect – and often won’t listen when they complain about it.
Women from three ...
Another One Bites The Dust: Coal Victory in Iowa!
itsgettinghotinhere.org 3/9/2009 — At 8:30 this morning Alliant Energy, a subsidiary of Interstate Power and Light, announced its plans to abandon construction of a 649 MW coal plant in Marshalltown, Iowa. The decision comes only 6 days after the Iowa Department of Natural ...
Iowa Ends Gay Couples' Exclusion From Marriage
commondreams.org 4/3/2009 — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 3, 2009 Freedom to Marry The Iowa Supreme Court today handed down a unanimous decision in favor
of the freedom to marry, bringing marriage equality to America's heartland. Iowa now joins Massachusetts
and Connecticut
in ending the exclusion of same-sex couples ...
From Washers to Wind: Obama in Iowa
watthead.blogspot.com 4/23/2009 — This is a guest post by Billy Parish, founder and former director of the Energy Action Coalition and current Ashoka Fellow, originally posted at Grist.org Yesterday, was the 39th anniversary of Earth Day and to mark the occasion, President Obama was in Newton, Iowa to speak about clean energy. ...
From Washers to Wind: Obama in Iowa
grist.org 4/23/2009 — Yesterday was the 39th anniversary of Earth Day, and to mark the occasion President Obama was in Newton, Iowa, to speak about clean energy. Newton is one of those towns where most of the residents are employed by one major employer, and until October ...
Wind Energy in the Heartland
rss.nrdcfeeds.org 4/20/2009 — What U.S. state comes to mind when you hear the words "renewable energy"? I'm guessing your immediate thought was California and possibly Texas.
This Wednesday (a.k.a Earth Day!), as part of his Clean Energy for America campaign, President Obama will be in a town named Newton to ...
Why farmers need (something like) Facebook
marcgunther.com 4/28/2009 — Some solutions to environmental problems are dizzyingly complex. Others are surprisingly simple.
Last week at FORTUNE’s Brainstorm Green conference, the Environmental Defense Fund released its 2009 Innovations Review—a collection of new ...
Follow EarthBlips on Twitter
