Most recent articles from Corn and Soybean Digest on Biofuels, Water Quality, Credits, and the importance of "going green" in agriculture.

Water Quality

Go Organic?

| By Larry Stalcup

No herbicide, no pesticide, no treated seed, no biotech. But your soybeans bring as much as $20-25./bu. That's the life of an organic soybean grower.... More

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Water Quality Credits

Stream Of Dreams

| By Susan Winsor

Craig Recker won a yield contest without a speck of commercial fertilizer. His New Vienna, IA, neighbors couldn't believe that manure and alfalfa credits... More

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Biofuels Archive

VeraSun Granted Emergency Financing

Nov 5, 2008 4:47 PM | By Richard Brock

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on Monday granted ethanol producer VeraSun Energy Corp.'s emergency request for debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing... More

Web Site is Dedicated to Farmers Cultivating Energy Crops

Nov 5, 2008 4:41 PM | Source: Penn State

A Web site dedicated to the exchange of information on switchgrass and other biomass energy crops has been launched at www.BiomassConnections.com... More

VeraSun Energy Corporation Launches Chapter 11 Case

Nov 5, 2008 4:37 PM | Source: VeraSun Energy Corporation

VeraSun Energy Corporation (NYSE: VSE), one of the nation’s largest ethanol producers, announced today the Company and 24 of its subsidiaries have filed voluntary petitions for relief under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware to enhance liquidity while they reorganize... More

Ethanol Saves $1 Billion

Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM

With the economy on shaky ground, there is some good news to report at the pump: Ethanol will save Americans more than $1 billion this year. With ethanol... More

Biofuels in the News

Crude Oil Price Hikes Impact On The Farm

May 28, 2008 10:29 AM | University of Illinois

Between 2003 and 2007, the majority of corn and soybean production cost increases can be attributed to crude oil price increases, according to a new University of Illinois Extension study... More

Response To Ethanol’s Bad Rap

May 28, 2008 10:26 AM | George Rehm

I agree with you 100%. Corn-ethanol is definitely getting a bad rap from the national non-farm media and, in my opinion, the criticism is totally unjustified.... More

NCGA Debuts New Food And Fuel Resource Center

May 21, 2008 10:43 AM | National Corn Growers Association

As a disinformation campaign against corn ethanol continues with enormous funding from special interests, the National Corn Growers Association has created an Internet resource center that focuses squarely on the “food versus fuel” issue... More

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