EWG recycles a bunch of ethanol myths, calls it a "study"
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What do you get when Big Oil and corporate activists team up to attack farmers and consumers?
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) and its new (*ahem*),
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Minnesota's prevented planting dates for corn approaching
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Unfortunately, Mother Nature has delayed corn planting once again this spring. Farmers who can’t even get in the fields due to the cold and wet spring may end up using the prevented planting coverage of their crop insurance policy.
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Making diesel engines more efficient with hydrous ethanol
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Inside a square room at the University of Minnesota’s new T.E. Murphy Engine Research Laboratory in Minneapolis, Will Northrop is working to refine a cleaner and more efficient diesel engine.
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NCGA to President Obama: Allow the bipartisan RFS to continue working
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The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), along with biotechnology businesses and ethanol groups, called on President Obama last week to reverse the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to slash the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
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University of Minnesota Extension: Working with corn farmers for more than 100 years
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One-hundred years ago today, Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act, which allocated funding for outreach activities to expand vocational, agricultural, and home demonstration programs in rural America at Land Grant Universities throughout the United States. -
Corn-fed research: New publication highlights corn farmers' support for beef initiatives
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Yes, it’s called the Minnesota Corn Growers Association, but its investments and support provide a boost for all of agriculture.Minnesota’s corn farmers have invested nearly $3 million in research and programs that improve and support the production of beef livestock.
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A quick update on farming, buffer strips and the Minnesota Shoreland Rule
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A recent story in the Star Tribune questioned whether a large number of farmers in Southern Minnesota are in violation of the law for growing crops near rivers and streams.
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Mother Nature keeping Minnesota corn farmers out of the field
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Mother Nature hit corn farmers with a left hook in the form of a winter that would never end. Now she’s delivering an uppercut with day after day of rain and more cold temperatures. -
4 corn farmers re-elected to Minnesota Corn Research & Promotion Council
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Jerry Demmer, Richard Peterson, Marty Amundson and Dwight Mork were all recently re-elected to the Minnesota Corn Research & Promotion Council (MCR&PC). Positions are three-year terms.
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