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Ethanol Advocates Pumped About Biden’s E15 News

Ethanol Advocates Pumped About Biden’s E15 News

Kelly Niewenhuis made the three-hour drive from his O’Brien County farm to Menlo for a good reason Tuesday: The White House invited him. Niewenhuis is president of the Iowa Corn Promotion Board, a board member for the Siouxland Cooperative Energy ethanol plant near...

How An Iowa Ethanol Plant Is Trying To Weather Trump’s Storm

How An Iowa Ethanol Plant Is Trying To Weather Trump’s Storm

The last two years have tested the farming community, small town agriculture and the biofuels industry. There has been little stability for commodity markets. With the trade wars, some markets have been effectively erased. There has been little stability for biofuels...

How An Iowa Ethanol Plant Is Trying To Weather Trump’s Storm

How An Iowa Ethanol Plant Is Trying To Weather Trump’s Storm

The last two years have tested the farming community, small town agriculture and the biofuels industry. There has been little stability for commodity markets. With the trade wars, some markets have been effectively erased. There has been little stability for biofuels...

How An Iowa Ethanol Plant Is Trying To Weather Trump’s Storm

How An Iowa Ethanol Plant Is Trying To Weather Trump’s Storm

The last two years have tested the farming community, small town agriculture and the biofuels industry. There has been little stability for commodity markets. With the trade wars, some markets have been effectively erased. There has been little stability for biofuels...

Joni Ernst Voted For EPA Leaders Undermining Ethanol

Joni Ernst Voted For EPA Leaders Undermining Ethanol

As Iowa's ethanol industry suffers at the hands of President Donald Trump and his Environmental Protection Agency, Sen. Joni Ernst continues to complain about the Cabinet official she helped to confirm. "I would assess that there are a lot of people within this...

Unlikely Allies: California And Iowa Look To Cleaner Ethanol

Unlikely Allies: California And Iowa Look To Cleaner Ethanol

The Midwest can help save our planet's natural resources with responsible farming practices. Presidential candidates have hinted at it with their plans and speeches in Iowa, but it's not something we should gloss over as pandering; it's a real possibility. Leaders...

Ep102: Michael Bennet Interview & Ethanol Plant Tours

Ep102: Michael Bennet Interview & Ethanol Plant Tours

The Iowa Starting Line Podcast host Pat Rynard interviews Colorado Senator Michael Bennet about his presidential run, his plans for public education, how social media is impacting our...

Ted Cruz’s Weird, Wobbly Week On Ethanol

Ted Cruz’s Weird, Wobbly Week On Ethanol

He loves me. He loves me not. He loves me... What the heck is going on with Ted Cruz and his stance on ethanol this week? For a year the Texas Senator has come under withering assault from Iowa's farmers and ethanol industry for his position on the Renewable Fuel...

Trump Attacks Kim Reynolds On Truth Social

Trump Attacks Kim Reynolds On Truth Social

Just a few weeks ago, Gov. Kim Reynolds issued a public statement in support of Donald Trump after his federal indictment, but now the two Republicans seem to be on the outs after Trump publicly confirmed a rift Monday. On his Truth Social media platform, the former...

Five Iowa Popcorn Businesses You May Not Know About

Five Iowa Popcorn Businesses You May Not Know About

Corn is king in Iowa. Look out any window or drive outside of the city, and it is the landscape. While it is used in a variety of products ranging from corn syrup to livestock feed to ethanol, another other important corn product is made in Iowa: Popcorn!  Iowa is one...

Why Railroad Workers Are On The Verge Of Striking

Why Railroad Workers Are On The Verge Of Striking

Christopher Smith wants you to know two things. One: A nationwide railroad strike is the last thing his Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation (SMART) members, some 700 of whom work for Iowa's rail carriers, want. For the last three years, and through an arduous...

Grassley Defeats Carlin In GOP Primary

Grassley Defeats Carlin In GOP Primary

As expected, Chuck Grassley successfully fended off a Republican primary challenge from state Sen. Jim Carlin of Sioux City on Tuesday to secure his name on the ballot for Iowa’s US Senate Election in November. Grassley, 88, will be seeking his eighth term in the US...