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Ethanol inventory in the United States was drawn down again last week, falling to the lowest stock level in more than 2 1/2 years despite a decline in ethanol demand and higher output, with ethanol production up for...

POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels in Emmetsburg, Iowa, one of the few commercial cellulosic ethanol plants operating in the country, will pause cellulosic production and focus on research and development. Company officials...

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Farmers can expect to see another round of Market Facilitation Program payments in the mail before Thanksgiving.

Three contest entries broke the 200-bushel barrier this year; the National Wheat Yield Contest also continues to recognize growers who far exceed county averages.

Ethanol inventory in the United States fell for the third time in four weeks, reaching the lowest level in over two years.

According to Thursday's EIA report, U.S. stocks of propane are lower than last week in all major regions of the country.

The Energy Information Administration on Thursday reported natural gas held in U.S. storage increased an about-as-expected 3 billion cubic feet (Bcf) in the week ended Nov. 8 to 3.732 trillion cubic feet (Tcf).

A lawsuit filed in May 2018 challenging EPA's granting of small-refinery exemptions was dismissed by a federal court.

There continues to be doubts about whether Congress will pass an extension of the biodiesel blenders tax credit.

Flooding is one of the many ways soybean cyst nematode can spread from field to field.

Republican senators from key biofuel states and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds each wrote EPA over its plan to account for small-refinery exemptions. Senators questioned EPA's method for offsetting the exemptions and...

Ag labor bills have come up in nearly every session of Congress over the past two decades only to whither somewhere in the process. The Farm Workforce Modernization Act introduced on Wednesday has 24 Democrats...

EPA got an earful from agriculture and biofuel groups on a proposal to account for small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Ethanol inventory in the United States declined for a second week, sliding to the lowest level in more than two years despite another weekly gain in ethanol plant production that pushed output to a seven-week...

Experts say the Market Facilitation Program injected much-needed cash into the ag economy. While that has anecdotally helped prop up the land market, it may have just delayed a downturn, especially if there's no...

With saturated soils, high reservoir levels and water flows on the Missouri River already high, the possibility of above-normal winter precipitation again leads to a high risk of the 2019 flooding carrying into spring...

No longer driven by farm profitability, steady-to-slightly higher farmland values are a result of low inventory and limited incentive to sell while there are plenty of willing buyers. The first piece of this two-part...

Winter annual weed seed is plentiful this fall, after a wet spring delayed spring and summer herbicide applications.

Ethanol inventory in the United States fell more than 3% in the week ended Oct. 18 despite ethanol plant production climbing to a five-week high.

Biofuels and agriculture groups have filed a legal challenge to EPA's approval of 31 small-refinery exemptions in August.

Farmers are eating into their working capital to survive this long stretch of low commodity prices, and while the stress mounts for some, economists and bankers say there are still important differences from the...

A rise in ethanol prices in recent weeks has led to improved profit margins in DTN's hypothetical ethanol plant.

One day after EPA released a Renewable Fuel Standard proposal that disappointed agriculture and biofuels groups, Iowa industries called on President Donald Trump to make sure the biofuels deal is implemented.

In the years since its founding, Conser Run Farm boasts significant improvement in soil productivity and stands as testimony that young people can enter farming lacking land or machinery.