AgDay
Hosted by Haley Bickelhaupt, AgDay provides the nation’s farmers and ranchers with the latest news, weather and business headlines, and features the people and places unique to the industry and small-town America.
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Corn cobs could soon contribute to the nation’s fuel supply. Poet is currently expanding its corn ethanol facility in Emmetsburg, Iowa, into one of the world’s first cellulosic ethanol plants. Once complete in 2011, Project Liberty, will produce 125 million gallons of ethanol per year, with 25 million gallons coming from corn cobs.
Fieldwork came to a halt across North Dakota in recent days as a barrage of ice and snow brought more complications to an already slow harvest pace, according to AgWeb Crop Comments.
Persistent drought is draining resources from farmers and ranchers in several counties across the Lone Star State with the inadequate field moisture deteriorating crop quality and forcing ranchers to dip into their supplemental feed stocks prematurely.
A farm economy that’s swung from unparalleled optimism to uncertainty in just a matter of months might appear to be a repeat of two decades ago, but there’s more to the story than meets the eye, said two Purdue University agricultural economists.
CQ now adds president of National Black Farmers Assn. as among Ag Secretary possibilities