Wisconsin agricultural ambassador Alice in Dairyland drives across the state to her many events in a flex-fuel Tahoe powered by E85 - 85% ethanol fuel - provided by the Wisconsin Corn Promotion Board. Wisconsin's 67th Alice stopped in to visit the WCPB...
Net cash farm incomes for beef-cow and dairy operations is up since provisions of the biofuels mandate went into effect according to a study using Texas A&M University’s Agricultural & Food Policy Center’s premier farm-level modeling system and data from the...
For the first time in history distillers grains will replace more than one billion bushels of corn in US livestock feed rations saving the livestock industry significant expenses. Charlie Staff, executive director of the Distillers Grains Technology Council, said...
USDA's Chief Economist Joseph Glauber announced publication of a report by the Office of Energy Policy and New Uses that surveyed corn growers for the year 2005 and ethanol plants in 2008, which indicates the net energy gain from converting corn to ethanol is...
Wisconsin would suffer significant job losses and a severe decline in economic activity if the tariff on foreign-subsidized ethanol is allowed to lapse at the end of the year. A study by the University of Missouri found that Wisconsin would loose 1,374 jobs the first...