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Is corn stover the next big biofuel?
Written by Dan Pillar | Des Moines Register   
Oct. 25, 2010 – West Amana, Ia. - If the cobs, stalks and leaves left behind after corn harvest become the next big source for ethanol, the technology to pick up the stover is decidedly old-school.

"A farmer who bales hay can do this," Steve Petersen, end-use market manager for Monsanto, said as he guided a tractor pulling a baler over an Amana Society cornfield that had been harvested two days earlier. | READ MORE
 
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