Oct 29, 2009 11:34 AM
A $20 million National Science Foundation grant will further establish Kansas as an internationally recognized leader in global climate change and renewable energy research - and will let a Nobel-Prize winning K-State scientist continue his work on the effects of climate change....
Oct 16, 2009 10:07 AM
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the approval of a $17.4 million loan to Greensburg Wind Farm, LLC, to provide financing for the 10 wind turbine project that will supply power to the community of Greensburg, Kan. ...
Oct 6, 2009 3:11 PM
Revolution, the 2009 Oklahoma Wind Energy Conference, is scheduled for Dec. 2-3, 2009, Cox Convention Center, Oklahoma City. ...
Sep 24, 2009 10:06 AM, By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Three Midwest senators have introduced legislation that would prevent EPA from penalizing U.S. corn and soybean growers for land use changes or potential land clearing for increased biofuel production in other countries....
Aug 27, 2009 11:06 AM, By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. soybean farmers have much to lose and little to gain from the current language in the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule on the implementation of the expanded Renewable Fuel Standard....
Aug 20, 2009 2:21 PM, By Blair Fannin, Texas A&M University
The best logistics for harvesting energy sorghum standing taller than 10 feet are still under construction, experts say. ...
Aug 17, 2009 10:08 AM, By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Is the Environmental Protection Agency deliberately trying to “stack the deck” against ethanol and other biofuels?...
Farm BillACRE could be boon or bust for southern farmersJul 11, 2008 10:01 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: Several provisions delayed until 2009Jul 8, 2008 9:38 AM The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 that U.S. farmers will be hitched to for the next five years has something old, something new, something borrowed and certainly something to make a few farmers blue.... USDA issues advance direct paymentsJul 8, 2008 9:21 AM America's farmers will receive up to $1.15 billion in 2008 advance direct payments that began July 7.... Food, Conservation and Energy Act for Oklahoma farmersJul 3, 2008 8:22 AM, By Ron Smith Elk City, Okla. farmer Danny Davis doesn’t expect the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program included in the recently passed Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 to fit his operation.... |
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