Agriculture
Farmers speak out about EPA corn proposal
Two local farmers traveled to Kansas City, Missouri, last week to speak out against an Environmental Protection Agency ...
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Agriculture
Prairies vanish in the US push for green energy
Robert Malsam nearly went broke in the 1980s when corn was cheap. So now that prices are high ...
Agriculture
AP Investigation: The secret, dirty cost of Obama’s green push
The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America’s push for green energy: The brown gashes where ...
Agriculture
Industry takes aim at AP ethanol investigation
A new Associated Press investigation, which found that ethanol hasn’t lived up to some of the government’s clean-energy ...
Agriculture
Q&A: Ethanol, oil and what it means to be green
In 2007, Congress passed a law requiring oil companies to blend corn ethanol into the gasoline supply. That ...
Agriculture
Ethanol helps spur corn’s northward move in Minnesota
Corn is marching northward in Minnesota, spurred in part by higher prices from the ethanol boom and by ...
Agriculture
A timeline of recent ethanol events
August 2005 — President George W. Bush signs the Energy Policy Act of 2005, requiring oil companies to ...
Agriculture
At a glance: Change in corn acreage and loss of conservation land by county
Since the federal government passed a law in 2007 requiring oil companies to add ethanol to their gasoline, ...