Editorials/Letters
Letter to the Editor – Farmers Ask for Certainty
In any business or operation some level of certainty is always beneficial. That certainty provides a basis to make short term and long term plans, assess investments into the business or needed changes to an operation. Our farms are no different. This year has given us plenty of uncertainty due to a drought that has [...]
Local View: Look for more of a home-grown, renewable fuel
By Kim Clark This piece was published in the Lincoln Journal Star on July 1, 2012. Kim Clark is director of biofuels for the Nebraska Corn Board. Recently, we have seen gas prices on the rise in Nebraska mainly due to the shutdown of the refinery in Texas. In fact, gas prices from Oklahoma to [...]
Ethanol a sensible path toward lower fuel prices
By Alan Tiemann Letter to the Editor, published in the Omaha World Herald on April 6, 2012. Alan Tiemann is a farmer from Seward and chairman of the Nebraska Corn Board. Gas prices keep heading north. You can see it at the pump and feel it in your wallet. Analysts keep talking it, adding fuel [...]
In defense of ethanol
By Don Hutchens, Executive Director, published in Norfolk Daily News on Monday, May 2, 2011 I have found it not only my responsibility, but also an honor, to defend what corn farmers have done not only in Nebraska, but also across the United States as they helped develop and construct an ethanol industry. It is [...]
Filling in the Blanks on Ethanol
Local Viewpoint by Kelly Brunkhorst, Director of Research, published in Thursday, April 28, Lincoln Journal Star J. Patrick Boyle’s editorial Corn ethanol: Burning up food budgets may make a couple valid points, but he omits many facts that need to be part of the discussion on corn ethanol. Although I agree that floods, droughts and [...]
Finding the solutions to feed, fuel the world
Commentary for Feedstuffs newspaper; March 7, 2011 By Don Hutchens Don Hutchens is Executive Director for the Nebraska Corn Board, which represents 26,000 corn farmers in Nebraska. He is a former Assistant Director and Director of Ag in Nebraska and is actively involved in farming and livestock feeding. In a recent viewpoint (Feedstuffs, Jan. 31), [...]
Ethanol is efficient, environmentally friendly, economical
Editorial in Lincoln Journal Star , March 5, 2011, in response to Ethanol Only Makes Sense in a Fantasy World By Kim Clark There are many myths and misconceptions about ethanol including it takes more energy to produce ethanol then you get back, that ethanol causes food prices to increase and “ethanol is harmful” – to [...]
Modern farmers, getting it done
Producing more with less. Sustaining Innovation. America’s corn farmers are doing this day in and day out, year after year. Jeff Gunderson, in his editorial, paints the picture that organic farming is the only way to help ecosystems and economics downstream. While I have no doubt that organic farming may accomplish this, one also needs [...]
Corn-fed beef is a nutritious friend to environment
Which is the better beef: grass-fed or corn-fed? More than ever before, consumers have a lot of questions about their food, and beef is no exception. They see cattle grazing in the fields and they see cattle in feedlots, but they don’t understand the difference.
Farmers need to become activists for agriculture
Commentary for Feedstuffs newspaper; August 2009 By Don Hutchens Don Hutchens is a lifelong farmer, former director of the Nebraska Department of Agriculture, past board of directors of the U.S. Grains Council, member of the National Corn Growers Assn.’s Ag Industry Council and executive director of the Nebraska Corn Board, which represents the 26,000 corn [...]
