Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns is disappointed with the 2007 Farm Bill he sees developing in the House Agriculture Committee for a number of reasons. One of them is lack of funding for cellulosic ethanol research. Johanns says the farm bill proposal put forth by the administration boosted cellulosic ethanol research funding by $1.6 billion and had over $2 billion in …
Biofuels Focus of Farm Improvement Act
Encouraging development of cellulosic ethanol is one of the main goals of the bi-partisan American Farm Improvement Act of 2007 introduced by Florida Congressmen Tim Mahoney and Adam Putnam. The bill seeks to jumpstart the alternative energy market by eliminating multiple, conflicting definitions of “biomass,” “cellulosic ethanol,” and other terms relating to the emerging biofuels market. The American Farm Improvement …
Hy-Vee Iowa Ethanol Promotion
Hy-Vee has been holding a couple of ethanol promotions here in Iowa during the IRL race week. One of them was held at a store in West Des Moines and Joe Miller, one of the store operations managers was on hand to talk about it. Joe says that he thinks ethanol is important and he’s glad to do what he …
Iowa Corn Growers Make Race Reality
Craig Floss is the CEO of the Iowa Corn Growers. I met him at the Kum & Go pump promotion in West Des Moines and got to interview him. The Iowa Corn Growers have been working for at least a year on making this weekend’s Iowa Corn Indy 250 a reality. Craig says there will be thousands of corn growers …
Ethanol Car in Practice In Iowa
Jeff Simmons, driver of the #17 Ethanol car for Rahal-Letterman Racing got his first laps on this track this afternoon. He just got done dialing in the computer settings with his team in advance of what looks like some stormy weather moving in. I’m glad these drivers got their practice in because there’s not much time left before Sunday’s Iowa …
Pioneer Technology Yields
You can see the interest Pioneer Hi-Bred has in this weekend’s Iowa Corn Indy 250 as you drive in to Iowa Speedway. This billboard with the track in the background is actually in a field of corn which I am sure is a Pioneer variety. Pioneer is a sponsor of the Team Ethanol Indy car this year. Iowa Corn Indy …
Ethanol Flies The Friendly Skies
Once again yesterday the ethanol logo was flying high. This banner was flown all over West Des Moines as multiple promotions were taking place including the one at the Kum & Go station. The pilot was on the lookout for large gathering areas and flew some pretty tight circles. Iowa Corn Indy 250 Photo Album
Iowa Corn Growers Unveil Trophy
The Iowa Corn Growers just held a press conference here at the Iowa Speedway to unveil the trophy for Sunday’s Iowa Corn Indy 250. It’s a tall good looking trophy. The group show here consists of several board members and CEO, Craig Floss, speaking on the left. Craig made a short statement which you can listen to here: [audio:http://www.zimmcomm.biz/epic/iowa-corn-07-icga-press-conf.mp3] Here’s …
Pioneer Sponsoring #17 Indy Car
One of the people attending the ethanol pump promotion in West Des Moines was Pioneer Hi-Bred Marketing Director for Quality Traits, Russ Sanders. I interviewed Russ as things were heating up (quite literally) at this Kum & Go facility. Here’s Russ posing next to the #17 Indy Ethanol car which Pioneer is a sponsor of this year. Russ says that …
E85 Summer Promotion
Here’s a good story from the Kum & Go pump promotion about their E85 start of summer promotional price. It’s hard to beat $1.85 gas if you’ve got a flex fuel vehicle in Iowa. If you buy gas at a Kum & Go right now you can take your receipt, go online and enter to win a number of great …