BENSON -- Chippewa Valley Ethanol is leading the way in proving the technology and economics of biomass energy. This year's lesson was all economics. The company did not harvest corn cobs from farm ...

EMMETSBURG, Iowa — Farmers within a 45-mile radius of the POET-DSM Project LIBERTY cellulosic ethanol plant at Emmetsburg are in the midst of biomass harvest. Eric Bruhn, of Cylinder, Iowa, bales corn ...

BENSON -- Weather conditions made it very difficult to harvest this year's corn crop, but they didn't stop the Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company from gleaning corn cobs along with the yellow grain from ...

Cutting small trees and brush for energy can be done without harming Minnesota's northern forests, but the cost to do the work may be more than the profit. That's the finding of the first ...

GLENWOOD, Minn. - Clarence Lehman is just two years into a six-year study on working prairies and bioenergy production, but he's already made some interesting discoveries. The University of Minnesota ...

HOOD RIVER — Hints of a southern accent come through in Rita Vaughan Frost’s voice when she talks about the woods in Texas where she spent much of her childhood. “Ever since I was a little girl, I ...

URBANA, Ill.-- To meet ambitious U.S. Department of Energy targets for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), production of purpose-grown energy crops must ramp up significantly. Although researchers have ...

A firefighter clears loose brush from around a Sequoia tree in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park, Calif., in this July 2022 photo provided by the National Park Service. (Garrett Dickman/NPS via ...