NexSteppe, a company dedicated to pioneering the next generation of sustainable feedstock solutions for the biobased industries, today announced the launch of its first sorghum hybrid products in the U.S. and in Brazil. NexSteppe’s new Malibu [...]
Lindsay Corporation, maker of Zimmatic irrigation systems, announces its “Save Now, Save More, Save Later” energy rebate program for irrigators who install variable frequency drive (VFD) technology on new or existing irrigation motors and pumps. The [...]
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday denied petitions for rehearing in a case challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to permit the commercial use of E15. The case, [...]
Battelle scientists have invented a novel, water-based polyurethane unlike any other-environmentally responsible, cost-effective, soy-based and free of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) solvent. This new polyurethane has less odor than its petroleum-based counterpart and can be used in a [...]
Grain sorghum has been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency as an eligible feedstock for an advanced biofuel under the Renewable Fuels Standard. To read the agency’s report click here. Terry Swanson, a grower in southeast [...]
Along with the growing interest in biomass energy crops as renewable alternatives to fossil fuels comes a growing list of questions from corn and soybean farmers about what it will cost them to switch. University of [...]
The commercialization of shrub willow as a bioenergy crop could be years closer, thanks to a $1.37 million grant that will allow Cornell University researchers to take advantage of the newly mapped shrub willow genome. Larry [...]
