A infrared device used at Hawkeye Renewables and 20 other ethanol plants measures ethanol yield from corn and provides a yield report to local farmers on and plants. The device compares the spectrum of the analyzed corn against the spectrum of proven high-yield corn. Executives said that using high-yield corn can improve productivity by up to eight percent.
Corn ethanol yields have increased from 2.2 to up to 2.8 gallons per bushel in recent years, and corn productivity has increased to nearly 156 bushels per acre, up from 125 in baselines used for studies of corn ethanol yield.
Pursuit Dynamics, in England, will commence production of a new product next year that, in tests, have increased ethanol yields up to 3.3 gallons per bushel. Current optimal yield are in the 2.8 gallo...
The USDA released 2008 field corn crop production estimates showing that the Department expects corn yields to increase 2.7 percent this year to 155.2 bushels per acre, up from the 2007 record yield o...
In testimony before the US Senate, the chairman of DuPont's Pioneer Hi-Bred subsidiary projected a 40 percent rise in corn and soybean yields by 2018, with corn reaching an average US yield of 225 bus...
The 2008 National Corn Yield Contest yielded new US records for corn productivity. The 2008 season national average corn yield was 153.8 bushels per acre, according to the USDA. Winners in the a...
In Pennsylvania, groundbreaking is scheduled for a 1/4-acre grass-based ethanol demonstration plant. The company's promoters claim a yield of up to 75,000 gallons of ethanol per acre, more than 100 ti...
In Iowa, scientists at DuPont unit Pioneer Hi-Bred International have identified a gene that determines oil yield in a corn, and have modified the gene to boost the yield of edible fats in corn by up ...
