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Corn ethanol plants using less energy but producing more ethanol per bushel
LINCOLN, NE — (June 1, 2010) Corn ethanol plants continue to cut their energy use while at the same time producing more ethanol per bushel of corn, the Nebraska Corn Board noted in reviewing a national study conducted by the University of Illinois at Chicago and published in the scientific journal Biotechnology Letters. “This underscores [...]
Corn Farmers Coalition heading to D.C.with messages about modern family farmers
The Nebraska Corn Board is one of more than a dozen corn organizations supporting the coalition. LINCOLN, NE – The Nebraska Corn Board and corn farmers from 13 other states and the National Corn Growers Association announced a new educational effort today in Washington, D.C., aimed at providing facts about modern family farmers to policymakers [...]
Nebraska Corn Board continues internship programs in Nebraska, D.C.
LINCOLN, NE — Since the Nebraska Corn Board was founded more than three decades ago, it has worked to nurture and develop talent among all students who have an interest in agriculture. Particular attention over the last two decades, however, has been given to college students selected to work beside staff and members of the [...]
Nebraska’s egg industry adds value to corn, aid overseas
LINCOLN, NE – Just as Nebraska farmers are producing more corn with fewer inputs on fewer acres, the Nebraska hen laying industry is producing more eggs per hen every year. Nebraska’s commercial laying hen population in 2008 was at 10 million birds producing over 2.5 billion eggs annually. The number of layers as of April [...]
Nebraska corn-fed beef adds value to ‘center of plate’
LINCOLN, NE – Nebraska’s beef producers are the best in the world – and they are experts at converting Nebraska-produced commodities like corn and distillers grains into corn-fed beef that is featured at the center of the plate the world over, the Nebraska Corn Board said today in acknowledgement of May being Beef Month. “Nebraska [...]
‘Theory’ on indirect land use change gets weaker with updates to model
LINCOLN, NE — “Indirect land use change theory” are five words that still have ethanol supporters and farmers scratching their heads. After all, said the Nebraska Corn Board, it seems very arbitrary to assign a land use change penalty involving carbon emissions to renewable ethanol when no such penalty is assigned to oil. Indirect land [...]
Gulf oil spill underscores need to increase use of clean, green ethanol
Nebraska Corn Board says current policy decisions will have dramatic effect on renewable fuels growth. LINCOLN, NE – As those along the Gulf Coast work tirelessly to manage a disaster due to an offshore oil drilling accident, this tragic situation provides even greater impetus for others to move the ball forward on renewable fuels. In [...]
Recognition of Earth Day should include farmers
LINCOLN, NE — The 40th anniversary of Earth Day occurs this week – Thursday, April 22. It’s a day that was started to inspire awareness and a better appreciation of the environment, and that should include the contributions made by farmers every year, according to the Nebraska Corn Board. “There are a great number of [...]
Study: Not extending ethanol tax credit would cost Nebraska nearly 14,000 jobs
LINCOLN, NE – Nebraska would lose more than 13,700 jobs should the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) not be renewed before it expires in December, the Nebraska Corn Board said today in response to a study released by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA). VEETC provides oil refiners and fuel blenders a 45-cent per gallon [...]
USDA: Nebraska corn farmers to plant 9.2 million acres
LINCOLN, NE – Farmers in Nebraska intend to plant some 9.2 million acres of corn this year, about 1 percent more than the 9.15 million they planted last year and 4.5 percent more than the 8.8 million planted in 2008, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in its Prospective Plantings report released this morning. “If [...]
