Energy Balance? The scale tips heavily in ethanol's favor
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Written by Jonathan Eisenthal
The secret to ethanol’s phenomenal energy return — 2.34 BTUs out for every 1 BTU of fossil energy input —
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Proposed RFS reduction threatens a vital animal feed: Distillers Grains
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Written by Jonathan Eisenthal
With a bushel of corn — 56 pounds — an ethanol plant produces 2.8 gallons of cleaner burning fuel and 17 pounds of high quality animal feed.
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Poultry industry clucks about the RFS while raking in record profits
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As the poultry industry demands a repeal of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), poultry corporations are making more money than they ever have before. -
Big Oil's ultimate goal: Get rid of the RFS
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The Environmental Protection Agency proposed slashing the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) and lowering 2014 ethanol blending targets by 1.4 billion gallons last Friday.
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Associated Press story plows under the facts about ethanol
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Do you enjoy writing filled with hyperbole? How about “reporting” that cites long-dispelled myths as fact and uses professional talking heads as sources? Is lazy journalism that aims to manufacture controversy (think Skip Bayless at ESPN or one of the many loudmouths that pollute the talk radio airwaves) your thing?
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Never read the comments (especially when the topic is ethanol)
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Those who venture into the comments section of a newspaper website rarely emerge unscathed. Newspaper comments sections are a jungle of misinformation, nastiness, name-calling and anonymous people behind a keyboard who know very little and pretend (often angrily) that they know a lot.
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Cover crops get some northern exposure
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Written by Jonathan Eisenthal
Stearns County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) and University of Minnesota Extension recently hosted a field day at a 12-acre plot with different varieties of cover crops sown into corn and soybean fields near Roscoe,
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Finding My Way to CommonGround
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Written by Kristie Swenson
An uneventful 6th-grade sleepover turned into a defining moment in my life: my passion for agricultural literacy was ignited.
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Corn farmers help bring E15 and E30 to Minnesota
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It’s official: E15 and E30 are now available in Minnesota, giving drivers more choices beyond regular gasoline when it’s time to fuel their vehicles.
With TV cameras rolling and a steady stream of customers pulling in to fill up their tanks at Penn Minnoco off Penn Ave.
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