Man converts Harley to run on soybean oil in Albion
Harold Benich builds a motorcycle that runs entirely on soybean oil using mail order parts and an old diesel engine. The 39 year old auto shop operator says the bike delivers about 100 miles per gallon and costs roughly four cents a mile, while acknowledging limited top speed and power.
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Albion
Harold Benich
Benich
National Biodiesel Board
Jefferson City
State Prison
Erie
Harley-Davidson
Tee
John Wargo
Pittsburgh
Syou
Rudolph Diesel
Erwin Rommel
Sahara Desert
Joe Loveshe
Columbus Foods
Agricultural seminars and meetings listed for Iowa events
Several farming programs, workshops, and meetings are announced across Iowa. Topics include advanced swine reproductive management, swine nutrition via IPIC, confinement manure applicator training, pruning fruit trees, and the Northeast Iowa Agricultural Experimental Association gathering. Officers for the Iowa Soybean Association were announced including John Askew as president.
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Kalonial Town House
Kalona
Iowa Pork Industry Center
Iowa
Jones County Extension Office
IPIC
Extension.instate
Iowa Communications Network
Northeast Iowa Agricultural Experimental Association
Iowa State University
290Th St
Nashua
Monona
Northeast Iowa
Iowa Soybean Association
John Hoffman
Waterloo
Corwin Fee
Knoxville
Dan Beenken
Bancroft
Curt Sindergard
Rolfe
Texas foot and mouth drill reveals system gaps
A Panhandle exercise simulating a foot and mouth outbreak traced infection from a South Texas pig farm to Hidalgo and Cameron counties, then Dallas County and beyond. It exposed command, communications and authority confusion, prompting calls to reform the Texas Emergency Response Team and strengthen national outbreak coordination.
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Knight Ridder
Fort Worth
Texas
United States
Canada
Mexico
South Texas
Hidalgo
Cameron
Willacy
Dallas
Tamaulipas
Walter Riggs
U.S. Department of Agriculture
CNA Corp
Virginia
Riggs
Max Coats
Texas Animal Health Commission
Agriculture Department
Britain
Coats
USDA
DPS
National Guard
California
Mark Teachman
Inhouse
Riverdale
Europe taps chicken waste to power farms and towns
European farmers convert poultry and pig waste into energy amid EU nitrate rules. Belgium-Hungary deal worth $2.84 million yearly exports waste. Dutch pilots extend waste-to-energy to local grids. Government and grants back crop of waste powered plants as farmers seek self sufficiency.
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Wall Street
Europe
Belgium
Hungary
Holland
Jo Duis
Brussels
Dutch Energy Research Foundation
Dan Roumen
Vencomatic
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