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Soybeans higher on demand optimism

Soybeans shrugged off pressure from the drop in soybean oil and crude to finish the day higher.  The market remains optimistic that China will begin purchasing soybeans, but there hasn’t

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Turning dairy manure into jet fuel

The CEO of Circularity Fuels says for the first time raw agricultural biogas has been turned into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Dr. Stephen Beaton says the company’s six-month pilot program

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Building Better Corn

The Illinois Corn Marketing Board is utilizing check-off funding to further research of the corn genome. In this Managing for Profit, Holly Adair-Anderson, a second-year doctoral student at the University

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