Miller said ethanol plants could be bigger to benefit from economies of scale. Miller said the current price of corn is $2 a bushel lower than it was 18 months ago, and yield trends are getting ...

Only a small portion of Nebraska’s corn ends up at the grocery store, and then often in an indirect way. So, if the ...

Unlike fossil fuels, ethanol can be derived from renewable resources, namely, plant-based sources of sugar (e.g., corn) and cellulosic ... the microbial playing field. They did this by modifying ...

Refining ethanol from corn-plant material, called stover, makes use of the waste left on fields after harvest and expands the potential production of ethanol without using more of the grain itself.

It creates "a very uneven playing field for ... refining of corn stover into ethanol also creates a byproduct, lignin, a renewable solid fuel that can displace coal in power plants, thus further ...

Corn ethanol, also known as grain alcohol, has been burned in gasoline engines and human stomachs since before Henry Ford was ...

Federal, state, local and commodity group officials attended the event for a new pilot plant focusing on large-scale commercialization of cellulosic ethanol ... field of leaves and stalks and corn ...

At the center are the nation’s respective supplies of corn, a field crop ... figure shows the front-month futures settlement prices for Corn futures and Chicago Ethanol (Platts) futures, with ...

The corn’s smaller stature and sturdier base enable it to withstand winds of up to 50 mph — researchers hover over fields with a helicopter to see how the plants handle the wind. How ‘corn ...

NEWS9’s Jaime Ely toured POET’S Marion Ethanol Production Plant to find out more. "We bring corn in. What we do then is grind it up. Then we bring it into what's called a slurry. POET’s ...

LENAWEE COUNTY, MI - In Michigan’s top corn-producing county, an ethanol plant that once processed 19 million bushels a year into fuel and other products hasn’t produced a drop in years.

Corn is an important part of our daily lives; it literally fuels us, as a food and when turned into ethanol. The grain is essential to ... Darcy Telenko, associate professor of plant pathology and ...