KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – It’s corn planting time in the U.S. Plains, and that means Kansas corn farmer Merl “Buck” Rexford is worrying about the weather — and hoping there is enough water.

Rexford plans to start seeding his 7,000 acres near Meade, Kansas, this week and he is relishing a recent heavy snow storm that dropped several inches of much-needed moisture.

Like corn farmers throughout the United States, Rexford hopes to grow a healthy crop yielding more than 150 bushels an acre this year. Much of his crop will wind up at a nearby ethanol plant.

And that puts the 65-year-old Rexford at the center of a bitter divide over biofuels, particularly corn ethanol. Leer más »

It seeks to generate 4.500 employments in Castile and León.Â

It wants to achieve energy and raw material sales of 600 and 400M€ per year. Ical/ Valladolid.

The Bioenergy Plan of Castile and León 2008-2020 foresees investments for the value of 1.300 million Euro, to generate 4.500 employments and to reach at the end of the period an annual commercialization of raw materials for the generation of this type of energy of 400 millions and the sale of 600 millions per year of finished products (electricity, heat and biofuel). Leer más »