Ethanex Energy Inc. plans to seek bankruptcy court protection in the “immediate future,” according to its posting Monday with securities regulators.
The Basehor ethanol company has ended an agreement to buy a small ethanol plant in Nebraska and dismissed three of its six officials. Its decisions follow failed efforts to raise $1.5 million in interim financing.
Ethanex […]
Central States Enterprises has announced plans to build a new corn ethanol facility which will be located next its present grain terminal near Montpelier.
According to a press release issued by the company over the weekend to the Muncie Star Press, the $150 million project will provide 200 jobs during construction and will create about 40 […]
Plans to build an ethanol plant near Erskine have suffered another setback, with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency set to recommend that the project, proposed by Agassiz Energy LLC, complete a detailed Environmental Impact Statement before proceeding further. The recommendation comes as a result of the project’s 70-page Environmental Assessment Worksheet and its review process, […]
COSHOCTON - Like every livestock farmer these days, Larry Stahl is worried about how much it’s going to cost to feed his herd of dairy cows in the near future.
Stahl, who works on his family’s Adams Township farm, Rocky Point Farms, has planted about 150 acres of corn this year to help feed his 75-head […]
The first coal-fired ethanol plant in Minnesota is expected to soon be in operation in Heron Lake, Minn.
High natural gas prices are leading new ethanol plant owners to embrace coal power, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.
“The country is investing in ethanol not only as a way to reduce our reliance on oil, but as […]
Corn is king when it comes to ethanol production, but a number of companies are working to dethrone its golden kernels and put lignin in that top spot.
Lignin is essentially the binding agent or glue that holds the stalk of a plant or the trunk of a tree together. Making ethanol from lignin is more […]
A new ethanol plant in Albion, Mich., owned primarily by The Andersons Inc., produced nearly 14 million gallons of the corn-based fuel in the fourth quarter, and two more plants are under construction, company officials told industry analysts yesterday.
However, Mike Anderson, president and chief executive officer of the Maumee agribusiness, said in the future, the […]
New strains of genetically modified corn will play a key role in meeting soaring demand as U.S thirst for ethanol fuel cuts into supplies, a top seed company scientist said on Friday.
Dupont’s Bill Niebur, the firm’s vice president for genetics research and development, said demand for ethanol means the race is on to rapidly ramp […]
The domain of snakes, scorpions and scrub brush since time immemorial, a stretch of desert in northwest Peru could soon become an unlikely generator of jobs and economic well-being, thanks to the booming U.S. market for ethanol.
At a ceremony this month, energy firm Maple Cos. closed a deal to buy 25,000 acres of unused and […]
Corn prices have more than doubled over the last year as the demand for ethanol has increased, and that’s left dairy farmers with a hefty price tag for feed.
Earlier this year, dairy farmer Hank Van Exel paid $117 for a ton of corn. Now, he’s paying nearly $200 a ton.
The reason?
Twenty percent of America’s corn […]