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Administering Wisconsin's corn checkoff
Annual Meeting Time
All Wisconsin corn growers are urged to attend the joint annual meetings of the Wisconsin Corn Growers Association (WCGA) and Wisconsin Corn Promotion Board (WCPB) scheduled for noon, Thursday, Feb. 2, in the Cypress meeting room at the Kalahari Conference Center, Wisconsin Dells.
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Wisconsin Corn Checkoff Funds University Research
The Wisconsin corn checkoff is funding projects with University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers investigating corn seed treatments, the sustainability of atrazine and production of renewable chemicals from ethanol plants during 2012.
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State Farmers Visit SE Asian Corn Buyers
Tell your children to stay in agriculture because demand for U.S. farm products will continue. That is the overriding message members of the 2011 U.S. Grains Council’s corn mission heard while visiting Guangzhou, China, last week.
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Drives Found E85 for $1.85 in Baldwin
Flex Fuel Vehicle (FFV) owners lined up to filled their tanks with E85 for $1.85/gallon at the Baldwin Cenex Convenience Store last Friday afternoon and also visited with Wisconsin Agriculture Ambassador Alice in Dairyland.
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Free Trade Agreement Progress Lauded
The Wisconsin Corn Promotion Board applauds Congress for finally passing the long standing Colombia, Korea and Panama Free Trade Agreements (FTAs).
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Study: Ethanol Production Doesn't Lower Cattle Profits
Net cash farm incomes for beef-cow and dairy operations is up since provisions of the biofuels mandate went into effect according to a study using Texas A&M University’s Agricultural & Food Policy Center’s premier farm-level modeling system and data from the University of Missouri’s Food & Agricultural Policy Research Institute.
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Wisconsin High School Team Wins with 100% Ethanol
Wisconsin corn growers helped a team of students from Durand, Wis., High School drive 572 miles per gallon with 100% ethanol fuel at this year’s Shell Eco-marathon Americas competition.
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Corn Promotion Board Reelects Exective Board
The Wisconsin Corn Promotion Board of Directors unanimously reelected their full slate of officers for another one-year term during their recent spring board meeting. These officers are as follows: President David Adams, Lake Geneva, District 8; Vice President Cal Dalton, Pardeeville, District 4; Secretary/Treasurer Tom Gillis, Roberts, District 2. The Wisconsin Corn Promotion Board is a producer-elected group responsible for administering the state's corn checkoff funds, under guidelines porvided by the state's marketing order. The primary objective of Wisconsin's corm marketing order is to maintain and expand sales of Wisconsin corn.
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Cows: The Original Corn-Converting Protein Machine
Dairy cows in the US eat more than 800 million bushels of corn. Livestock eat an additional 1.1 billion bushels in the form of distillers dried grains from ethanol production.
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US Livestock Eating more Distillers Grains
For the first time in history distillers grains will replace more than one billion bushels of corn in US livestock feed rations saving the livestock industry significant expenses.
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Corn Ethanol Energy Positive Since 1990s, Gets Better All the Time
 This report measures all conventional fossil fuel energy used in the production of 1 gallon of corn ethanol. For every British Thermal Unit (BTU) unit of energy required to make ethanol, 2.3 BTUs of energy are produced. The ratio is somewhat higher for some firms that are partially substituting biomass energy in processing energy. Since the last study in 2004, the net energy balance of corn ethanol has increased from 1.76 BTUs to 2.3 BTUs of required energy.
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Ethanol Industry Means Jobs for Wisconsin
Wisconsin would suffer significant job losses and a severe decline in economic activity if the tariff on foreign-subsidized ethanol is allowed to lapse at the end of the year. A study by the University of Missouri found that Wisconsin would loose 1,374 jobs the first year after the tariff lapses, 4,721 in the second year, and 6,972 in the third year. The year-to-year economic declines in Wisconsin would reach $307 million in the first year, $884 million in the second year, and $1.2 billion in the third year after the tariff lapses.
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Free E85 Station Maps Available
Wisconsin motorists can get help finding ethanol fueling stations in the state with a new E85 station map and vehicle information brochure available free courtesy of Wisconsin’s corn checkoff.
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Biofuels Promote Longer Life
Biofuels could add years to people’s lives according to a recent article in the Daily Californian regarding a scientific assessment from UC-Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Ethanol Plants Don't Change Land Use
Two new, independent studies on ethanol land use impact both conclude that modern ethanol production doesn't impact land use patterns significantly.
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Distillers Grains Presentations Now Posted Here
The rapid growth of the dry grind ethanol industry has resulted in larger supplies of DISTILLERS GRAINS (DG) than ever before that are:
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