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Public supports ethanol
Registered voters by a 2-1 margin favor increased use of ethanol, a Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and Public Opinion Strategies poll found. The poll...
Riding The Winds
Been trying to keep up with feeder-cattle futures lately? If you have, and you're not sitting down, best find a chair, because the volatility can be dizzying....
Diesel Continues To Plunge; Gas Is Down 6.9˘/Gal.
The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline fell for the sixth consecutive week, dropping 6.9˘ for the week ending Aug. 18, to $3.74/gal ...
Price Drops Continue For Gasoline & Diesel
The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline slid 7.1˘/gal. to hit $3.809 for the week ending Aug. 11. It was the fifth-straight weekly drop, and a cumulative loss of 30.5˘ from the all-time high ...
Taking It To THE STREET
The summer of 2008 may well be remembered as the year farmers stood up to say to falling prices and higher production costs. Or, at least in Europe. Earlier...
Hard To Manage
Trying to manage fuel costs in a feedyard is a bit like paying taxes. Your options are fairly limited. There's just not an easy fix for it, says Sam Stevenson,...
Dealing With $4 Diesel
With record-high prices on new vehicles, $4/gal. fuel, and the limited maintenance and repairs that can be performed at the ranch on newer model vehicles,...
Food Before Fuel Campaign Kicks Off
The Food Before Fuel Campaign was announced this week with the goal of urging Congress to revisit the nation’s renewable fuels policy...
Consumers Reveal Tactics Against High Pump Prices
A December Nielsen Homescan Consumer Panel survey reveals the No. 1 way consumers are dealing with today's high prices at the pump is by "combining errands and trips" (70% of respondents)...
Retail Gasoline & Diesel Prices Retreat Across The U.S.
The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline retreated from the highest recorded January price, dropping 4.1˘ to $3.068/gal., as of Jan. 14, or 83.9˘ above a year ago. Meanwhile, the average price for retail diesel fell 5˘...
Repeal Ethanol Tariff
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) has indicated he plans to introduce legislation to temporarily repeal the ethanol tariff. The reason is to make more corn ...
Accept change and get on with it
I'm disturbed by all the complaining today particularly by cattlemen regarding grain-based ethanol. As a consulting nutritionist with 400,000 cattle under...
Carefully Consider Wind-Energy Contracts
Ag is firmly at the center of the growing trend for alternative energy, and it's not just ethanol and biodiesel. Increasingly, electricity produced from wind turbines ...
Study Says Biodiesel To Boost Economy By $24 Billion
25x25 Renewal Energy Proposition Gets House Support
Biogas Facility Planned In Grand Island
Beef In Your Tank
Today's world is crazy for ethanol. Every corn grower from South Dakota into the Southern Plains seemingly is either part of an ethanol-production co-op...
Aussies look to tallow for energy
Australia hopes to convert tallow into more than 10-million gals. of biodiesel annually in a move to boost the long-term sustainability of its red meat...
Australian Meat Industry Launches Biodiesel Venture
Renewable Energy Conference Set For October
Learn About Biofuel's Future On Crop/Livestock Ag
Permanent Renewable Fuels Incentive Introduced
2525 energy initiative pushed
Sens. Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Ken Salazar (D-CO), and Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Collin Peterson (D-MN), introduced a Congressional resolution...
House Committee Moves E-85 Measure Forward
Michigan Looks To Make Energy From Switchgrass
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
