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.

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 ...

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 ...

Corn ethanol, also known as grain alcohol, has been burned in gasoline engines and human stomachs since before Henry Ford was born. It’s hard on both, so until 35 years ago it never caught on much, at ...

Planting started about a month behind this year for Casner, but with strong stands and minimal replant in his fields that ... of Casner’s corn is sent to two local ethanol plants.

Ethanol plants quickly sprang up around corn fields, due largely to investments from farmers eager for the new market to succeed. “It’s just another avenue of capturing some of that value of ...

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 ...

Brazil's corn production is set to reach 125 million metric tons by 2024/25. Ethanol consumption from corn is expected to more than double, with production of the fuel growing rapidly. Sorghum is ...

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 ...

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.