What if corn is manipulating us into making ethanol to perpetuate its genes and increase its habitat? We (humans) tend to see ourselves as having dominion over nature. We take and destroy when we ...

Twice as much U.S. corn goes to feeding animals as it does to directly feeding people, but there's another use for all that cheap grain: making ethanol. For good or ill, a lot of what Americans ...

According to USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, corn used in ethanol fell from a high of 5 billion bushels in 2011 to 4.65 billion bushels in 2012. This year, USDA expects 4. ...

Nestled along the curves of the Illinois River just outside the town of Hennepin is the country’s largest dry-mill ethanol plant, where a network of pipes, grain elevators and exhaust towers rise like ...

7 editorial against ethanol. Corn ethanol is not perfect; it is a first-generation biofuel. With corn ethanol, the United States is establishing a market and distribution system for ethanol as a ...