Vilsack Visits the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Meeting

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

I was privileged to spend the past few days at the Inaugural Meeting of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), a well-organized group of stakeholders from around the country ranging from farmers to policy wonks (who are sometimes one in the same) working in coalition on important issues. In addition to learning an incredible amount [...]

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Farmers Can Help Re-Localize Our Energy

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Rather than helping to produce liquid fuel (ethanol) for vehicles, a better future for some of the nation’s farms may be in growing grass for use as a heating fuel, according to Jock Gill, president of Pellet Futures, a bioenergy consultancy.
Gill spoke Saturday in State College, Pa., at the 18th annual conference of the Pennsylvania [...]

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