Amazing new diets, intriguing self-help books, a daily dose of St. John’s Wort – we are a country obsessed with quick fixes. Now, as Time points out in this cover story titled The Clean Energy Myth, we can add ethanol…
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The Clean Energy Scam
Tagged with: Alternative energy, corn, CTL, energy, energy policy, ethanol, global warming, nuclear power, solar power, soybeans, Wind power
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Feature, Midwest, News Desk
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Feature, Midwest, News Desk
Corn Drives Land Prices Higher and Higher
It’s official. The New York Times proclaimed in August that the market for Midwestern farmland was “hot,” a declaration akin to labeling Hurricane Katrina “dangerous” two weeks after it devastated the Gulf Coast. Anyone remotely familiar with the Corn Belt…
Tagged with: corn, corn ethanol, ethanol, farm policy, Hertz Real Estate Services, Iowa land, Randy Hertz
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Farming, Feature, Great Lakes, July 2007, Magazine, Midwest, News Desk, Regional News, Topics
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Farming, Feature, Great Lakes, July 2007, Magazine, Midwest, News Desk, Regional News, Topics
End of the Conservation Reserve Program?
BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED APRIL 2007 With the Bush administration backing off on the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), conservation and hunting groups fear the 22-year-old program once dubbed “Noah’s Arc for Wildlife” is a sinking ship. Backers of the CRP,…
Tagged with: Bush Administration, conservation reserve program, corn ethanol, CRP, Delta Waterfowl, ethanol, Rob Olson, USDA
Posted in April 2007, Conservation, Energy, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Hunting, Joseph Guinto, Magazine, Midwest, News Desk, Public Land, Recreation, Topics
Posted in April 2007, Conservation, Energy, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Hunting, Joseph Guinto, Magazine, Midwest, News Desk, Public Land, Recreation, Topics
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