Attached is an audio report featuring comments from four ethanol industry leaders about the future of the ethanol industry and what role the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) will play in it. Audio sound bites are included from RFA Vice Chairman Tom Branhan of Glacial Lakes Energy in Watertown, South Dakota; Renewable Fuels Foundation chairman Bill Lee with Chippewa Valley Ethanol …
National 2008 Ag Day Essay Winner Named
The Agriculture Council of America (ACA) has announced the national 2008 Ag Day Essay Contest winner, Katlin Wiest. ACA called upon seventh- to 12th-grade students nationwide to submit original essays of 450 words about the importance of agriculture in the United States. Under the theme “Agriculture – Bigger Than You Think,” students were encouraged to focus their essays on the …
National Agriculture Day Events
National Agriculture Day takes place on the first day of spring as a way to celebrate American agriculture and the farmers who help provide the food, fiber, shelter, energy and other materials we use on a daily basis. In honor of this special time of the year, the Agriculture Council of America (ACA) hosted events in Washington, D.C. on March …
Highlights from the National Ethanol Conference
Attached is an audio report featuring comments from presenters at the 13th annual National Ethanol Conference last month in Orlando. Audio sound bites are included from Renewable Fuels Association president Bob Dinneen, National Corn Growers Association CEO Rick Tolman, Informa Economics CEO Bruce Scherr, and Assistant Energy Secretary Andy Karsner. Full Release
EPIC Hires New Executive Director
Omaha, Neb. (March 4, 2008 – AgNewsWire) – The Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC) has a new executive director. She is Toni Nuernberg, who comes to EPIC from ACA International in Minneapolis where she worked for 29 years, the last 12 as Chief Operating Officer of ACA International Holding Company Inc. and its for-profit subsidiaries. Nuernberg says when she …