Manure lawsuit verdict takes blame off farmer
By JERRY PERKINS • REGISTER FARM EDITOR • February 1, 2008
 
Patterson, Ia. - Dust kicked up by a four-year legal battle over the spreading of hog manure is clearing on a Madison County gravel road called Rustic Avenue.Neighbors who live across the road from each other have been on opposite sides of a lawsuit that could have affected the way Iowa hog producers manage their operations, as more people look for homes in the country.The long-running legal tussle ended last week when a Polk County jury handed Iowa's hog producers a major legal victory, said lawyer Brian Rickert, who represented defendants Tim and Glenna Camp and Al and Rachel Pangborn.
 
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080201/BUSINESS01/802010367/1029/archive
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ISU goal: Transform plastic trash into fuel
By LISA ROSSI • REGISTER AMES BUREAU • February 1, 2008
 

Ames, Ia. - Iowa researchers and biodiesel producers have joined a federal effort to convert plastic trash from military bases into fuel.The research can change the disposal of plastic, said Balaji Narasimhan, an Iowa State University associate dean of research and economic development.Narasimhan is among the ISU researchers trying to figure out how to make certain types of plastics dissolve in biodiesel at rates fast enough to use in the public or private sector, he said.
 
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080201/BUSINESS/802010369/1029/archive
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Politicians pump up Iowa biofuels industry Thursday
ASSOCIATED PRESS • February 1, 2008
 
Lt. Gov. Patty Judge offered a bullish assessment of Iowa's renewable fuels industry on Thursday, crediting it with giving Iowa stability even as the country grasps with a laggard economy."The renewable fuels industry is having a direct impact on the people who live closest to the land - Iowa's farmers," she told about 600 people at the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association's Second Annual Summit.Judge was a late replacement for Gov. Chet Culver, who had been expected to address the summit. Instead, he was in Washington cloistered with other governors and congressmen discussing a federal economic stimulus package.
 
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080201/NEWS/80201011
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