Editorials/Letters
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 [...]
A look at facts tells real story about ethanol
This was published in the April 13, 2009, issue of Feedstuffs in response to a Viewpoint by Dennis T. Avery and Alex Avery that was published in the March 30, 2009, issue of that publication. (To view that commentary, which blamed corn/ethanol for the crash of flight 1549 into the Hudson River, click here.) By [...]
Ethanol series suffered from lack of balance and industry sources
Guest Editorial or Op/Ed for the Lincoln Journal Star. (It ran Oct. 2, 2008: click here.) By Don Hutchens Don Hutchens of Lincoln is Executive Director of the Nebraska Corn Board. The Nebraska Corn Board represents the interests of the state’s 26,000 corn farmers. Your front page story in Monday’s (09/29/08) paper “Food vs. Fuel: [...]
Big Oil uses record profits to hold us hostage
Editorial written April 4, 2008 By Don Hutchens, Nebraska Corn Board I’m not sure if oil companies think we are that naïve, or that we all just love paying nearly $4.00 a gallon for gas while they bask in record profits. Exxon Mobil reported record profits of $40.7 billion last year, while it and the [...]
