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....
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. ...
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Is the Environmental Protection Agency deliberately trying to “stack the deck” against ethanol and other biofuels?...
A proposed federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS-2) uses assumptions and methodologies that excludes vegetable oil (including soybean oil), or about 70 percent of all available domestic raw material for biodiesel. ...
USDA Farm Service Agency Administrator Jonathan Coppess has announced that biomass conversion facilities can begin signing up to participate in the Biomass Crop Assistance Program, which will help increase production of renewable energy. ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s public comment period on the E15 waiver request closes today, marking the EPA’s decision-making period on whether to allow the base blend of ethanol and gasoline to be increased from 10 to 15 percent. EPA has until December 1 to rule on the waiver request filed on March 6 by a coalition of ethanol industry groups, corn ethanol producers, and cellulosic ethanol companies....
In a field tucked into the northern side of this college town, just across from the Kansas State University football complex, some unusually tall plants are growing. ...
The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opposing an increase of ethanol levels in gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent. ...
By Dee Ann Littlefield, USDA-NRCS
Buddy Alders and George King have a lot of energy when it comes to farming and ranching. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A few hours after brokering a deal on the House climate bill, Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, explained why compromise was necessary, how the controversial indirect land use provisions will be handled and repeatedly commented on the mutual distrust between agriculture and the EPA....
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