Biofuel Forums

UNL Biofuels Forums are held the last Friday of every month, beginning in May 2007. The time for each forum is 10:30-11:15 am, Central Time. Forums are presented over the internet using Adobe Connect. All you need to participate is access to the internet and a telephone (land line or cell phone). Select and view past forums in the Archived Forums listed below.

Email John Hay for log-on instructions.

Future Forums

July 25, 2008 - TBA

August 29, 2008 – Nebraska’s Woody Biomass Resource – Rich Woolen, Nebraska Forestry
Service           

                   

September 26, 2008– Community Impacts of Ethanol Plants in Nebraska – Dewey Teel, UNL
Extension Educator

                   

October 31, 2008– Feeding Ethanol Co-Products in Backgrounding & Cow Calf Operations –
Brent Plugge, Rick Rasby, Aaron Stalker UNL

November 28, 2008 – Cropping Systems – Jenny Rees

No forum in December

Archived Forums

2008

June 27, 2008 - Storage of Wet Corn Co-Products
Galen Erickson, UNL Extension Feedlot Specialist
Brent Plugge, UNL Extension Educator
Watch archived presentation: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p31414991

May 30, 2008 - Wind Power 101
Presented by Jim Crawford, Natural Resources Engineer and CPD, University of Missouri Extension, Atchison County
Watch archived presentation: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p97301648/

April 25 – Corn and Wood Furnaces
Mark Setzer, Heat Source One, Beatrice, NE
Watch archived presentation: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p14821468/

March 28 – Nebraska Carbon Offsets in Agriculture
Randy Pryor , UNL Extension Educator
Watch archived presentation: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p82826870/

February 29– Water Issues with Ethanol Production
Derrel Martin, UNL Water Resource and Extension Irrigation Specialist
Watch archived presentation: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p18378493/

January 25 – Corncob Harvest
Ty Stukenholtz, Ceres Agriculture Consultants, LLC
Watch archived presentation: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p65887579/

2007
November 30 – Refined Fuels, Ethanol and U.S. Corn Markets
Dennis Conley, Professor UNL Agricultural Economics Department,
Watch archived presentation: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p26782271/

October 26 – Ethanol Industry’s Impact on Cropping Systems and Management
Sweet Sorghum, and Stover Harvest
Charles Wortmann, UNL Agronomy Dept
Wally Wilhelm, USDA ARS
Watch archived presentation: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p12394167/

August 31, 2007 – Nearby Ethanol Production Impacts on Community
Dewey Teel, UNL Extension Educator, and David Peters, UNL Professor of Agricultural Economics
Watch archived presentation: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p47515815/

July 27, 2007 - Definition & Composition of By Products
Rick Rasby, UNL Extension Beef Specialist
Watch archived presentation: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p19606825/

June 29, 2007 - Biodiesel Industry in Nebraska
Loren Isom, IAPC, and Bill Booker, Extension Educator
Watch archived presentation: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p54079806/

May 25  - Ethanol Industry in Nebraska
Todd Sneller, Nebraska Ethanol Board
Watch archived presentation: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p58665066/