Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin faced members of the Senate Appropriations Committee Wednesday to answer questions about the agency’s 2026 fiscal year budget request, including as it relates to biofuels. Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE) asked Zeldin about the need for a permanent legislative solution for the nationwide sale of year-round E15. “Is it true that, despite President Trump’s …
Ethanol Report on Angler Education
This weekend, crappie anglers from around the country will be on the Lake of the Ozarks for a chance to win $50,000 in the Big Crappie Challenge. The Renewable Fuels Association is in on the competition with three RFA-sponsored teams making sure the ethanol message is relayed to the hundreds of anglers on the water this weekend. Robert White, RFA …
Livestock Markets and Dealers Support Efforts to Prevent New World Screwworm
Livestock markets and dealers strongly support recent efforts to stop the spread of the New World Screwworm (NWS) into the U.S. The introduction of the bipartisan and bicameral Strengthening Tactics to Obstruct the Population of Screwworms (STOP Screwworms) Act, which would authorize funds for and direct the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to begin construction on a new sterile fly …
Advanced Agrilytics Releases New White Paper: “Transforming Global Food Production One Algorithm at a Time”
Indianapolis, IN – May 6, 2025—Advanced Agrilytics, a leader in precision agronomic solutions, today announced the publication of a new white paper titled “Transforming Global Food Production One Algorithm at a Time.” The paper underscores the company’s mission to revolutionize food production and agricultural sustainability with its patented sub-acre analysis technology. The full white paper is available for download here. …
PowerPollen Receives Foundational Patent for Groundbreaking Pollen Storage Methodology
Decades of Discovery and Commercial Field Data Consistently Shows Yield Improvement Storage Patent Latest in IP Portfolio for Industry Leading Pollination Tech Stack Ankeny, IA – May 6, 2025 PowerPollen, an agtech company improving crop pollination for increased agricultural productivity and profitability, has received U.S. Patent 12,245,587 for its groundbreaking process of using solid particulates blended with fresh pollen grains …
Advanced Agrilytics Reveals New Data Linking Crop Resilience to Lower Risk and Higher Profitability
New analysis shows Advanced Agrilytics customers outperform USDA loss benchmarks, even in tough growing seasons Indianapolis, IN – April 30, 2025 – Advanced Agrilytics published a new study showing that its data-driven, predictive agronomic methodology helps growers boost productivity in good years and better withstand tough seasons, reducing agronomic and financial volatility and risk. The new article, “How Crop Resiliency …
Ethanol Report on Aromatics Cancer Research
New research out of The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota has discovered links between breast cancer risk and exposure to carcinogens and aromatics from gasoline. The Biofuels Research Project at The Hormel Institute has been studying the carcinogenic effects of compounds originating from burning fossil fuels thanks to the support of organizations like the Renewable Fuels Association. RFA board member …
Jord BioScience Field Trials Deliver Breakthrough Consistency in Biological Crop Protection, Boosting Soybean Yields Across Midwest
Proprietary Microbial Bank Bolsters Market-Leading Crop Protection for Higher Yields Two Years of In-Field Data Prove Biological Playbook’s Impact Potential MINNEAPOLIS, MN, April 29, 2025 – Jord BioScience, a leading science and analytics company providing customizable microbial solutions for agriculture, unveiled two years of field trial data showing its proprietary microbial solutions consistently outperform industry-standard treatments, increasing soybean yield by …
Full Agenda is Set for 2025 AgGateway Mid-Year Meeting
Prairie Meadows Casino and Hotel, Altoona, Iowa June 9-11, 2025 AgGateway is pleased to announce that the agenda is now available to review for the 2025 North America Mid-Year Meeting. This year features more sessions taking place on Monday morning, in addition to an all-day Entity ID Working Group meeting on Thursday, 12 June as a follow up to the …
ZimmCast 745 – ZimmComm News & NAMA/NAFB Interviews
Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. In this episode I’m going to share a couple of interviews from the NAMA Agri-Marketing Conference. One is with Gardner Hatch, Executive Director, NAFB and Debbie Boyle, Vice President, Kynetic. They talk about a new NAFB listener survey. Then I have an interview with Melanie Rice, Brownfield Ag News, about becoming the new President …
Ethanol Report on E15 Optimism
U.S. sales of E15 reached a record 1.24 billion gallons in 2024, an increase of 11% over 2023, according to a Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) analysis of data released by state agencies in Minnesota and Iowa. While it appears the Trump administration will have to continue the practice of issuing waivers this summer to keep E15 at the pump, there …
Sec. Rollins Gets Airtime for Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has taken a much more visible role in the new Trump Administration than previous agriculture secretaries, appearing three times this month already on Fox News, most recently this past Sunday. In a wide-ranging interview with Shannon Bream, Rollins talked about a number of issues, from tariffs and trade to the price of eggs, and spent …
ZimmComm Announces Travel Retirement
After over 20 years of hitting the “agriblogging” highway, ZimmComm principals Chuck and Cindy Zimmerman are retiring from business travel at the end of 2025. The Zimmermans founded ZimmComm in 2004 as the first social media-based agricultural communications company and pioneered “event blogging” for farm and biofuels conferences, capturing the sights and sounds in photos and interviews. Nearly 225,000 photos …
New Listenership Research Validates Power of Farm Radio
PLATTE CITY, Mo. (April 9, 2025) – Farm radio is local, it’s mobile and it’s trusted. Even with the abundance of multiple media and information sources that U.S. farmers have at their fingertips today, new market research shows the trust in the farm broadcaster still leads listeners to rank ag radio as their #1 choice for daily ag news and …
USTR Greer Questioned on Agricultural Tariffs
The Senate Finance Committee grilled U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer during a hearing Tuesday on the administrations trade policy, including how agriculture may be impacted. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) questioned Greer about the impact of, and goals for, tariff usage. “My question to you is, in the medium to the long term, do you plan to turn these tariffs …