FARGO - Corn has become the mainstay of ethanol production. However, many firms are investigating new feedstocks, such as switchgrass, forest products and algae, to produce cellulosic biofuels that ...

PIERRE, S.D. — At Dakota Lakes Research Farm near Pierre, South Dakota, South Dakota State University has a trial of field peas, consisting of around 35 different varieties of both green and yellow ...

Demand has boosted prices for some crops, which include field peas, oats and canola, grown in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota on varying numbers of acres. Paul and Diane Overby of Wolford, ...

Amid the semiarid grain fields of Kansas, Thomas County farmer Steve Ziegelmeier was searching for an alternative. It was 2008, and Ziegelmeier wanted a bridge crop to plant between dryland corn and ...