...DOD will help drive the development of advanced cellulosic biofuels that have lower impacts on water, energy use, and food crops than conventional ethanol. Because of economies of scale, this will help bring down prices and create market opportunities...

...scrapped impractical hydrogen car research. We fertilize more than 40 million prime crop acres for subsidized biofuel food crops, sending chemicals to the Mississippi, making those dead zones in the Delta and Gulf of Mexico. The best way to get...

...No problem, say our legislators as they mandate more biofuels, stating that we can make cellulose fuel from non-food crop residue like corn stover, the stalks and leaves. But nature's law requires residue to stay on the land, protecting...

...12."FBMT 2229" is a special topics course focused on the rising interest for on-farm fuel production using non-food crops such as camelina. Camelina is an oil-seed crop that is 38 percent oil and has shown excellent drought tolerance on...

...researchers also found pollen that suggests the ancient farmers may have been the first to domesticate sunflowers as a food crop. The pollen was 4,000 years old. Also found was the pollen of cotton. It was dated at 2500 B.C. Jones said the...

...alternate energy effort to replace milllions of years of product from nature's shale based ovens with this year's food crops, like corn and sugar cane, will provide just a modest supplement to our energy needs. That food for fuel effort is...

...educational games to inform young children and teens about honeybees and the pollination they provide for America's food crops and flowers. The American Honey Queen will be on hand to do face paintings. Vendors will sell honey, bees wax candles...

...drugs; diseases like tuberculosis, strep infections, venereal diseases, etc. We need to continually bring in new food crop plants that can combat mutated pests and diseases. That understanding must not be impeded. Philosophies, dogmas of...

Christmas trees from tree farms generally grow on land that's not well-suited for intensive food crop production. They provide several environmental benefits, said horticulturist Deb Brown of the University of Minnesota Extension...

...way to replace the 13 million barrels, not gallons, of oil that we import each day. "Energy Independence" using food crops is a slogan, not a policy. A new study from the U.S. Dept. of Energy is more realistic. It's 156-page report...