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Tagged: Iowa

Business
9:23 am
Wed February 15, 2012

Columbia officials to use other cities for public transportation examples

Credit File / KBIA
Officials from around Columbia will travel to out-of-state to explore revisions to the city's transportation system.

University of Missouri students, city officials and MU’s transit consultant will visit Ames, Iowa to look at their public transportation system on Friday (Feb. 17).

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Business Beat
5:32 pm
Wed February 8, 2012

Business Beat: February 8, 2012

Credit Kathleen Masterson / Harvest Public Media
Iowa farmer Larry Stolte can store about 60 percent of his crop harvest, and is adding another 75,000 bushel grain bin this summer.

This week: Farmers buying up grain bins to help play the market. Plus, how refineries in Kansas and Iowa could help find another source of bio fuel.

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Business
1:41 pm
Wed February 8, 2012

A new source of biomass

Credit Eric Durban / Harvest Public Media
Corn stalks, leaves and cobs like these at the Kansas State Southwest Research and Extension Center in Garden City, Kan., can be harvested as biomass.

Corn has been the engine behind the ethanol industry for years, and that food vs. fuel debate doesn't look to end anytime soon.  But as researchers work to unlock the biofuels potential in crop residue and other biomass, a refinery is being built in Kansas may help take the industry to another level.

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