Managing for Profit

Will you collect corn cobs in the future?

Several hundred farmers attended POET Ethanol’s Project LIBERTY field day near Emmetsburg, Iowa this week.  The event featured live demonstrations of corn cob harvesting and transporting equipment from leading manufacturers and an informational session for farmers on the opportunities afforded them by harvesting biomass for cellulosic ethanol. Corn cobs are the feedstock of choice for POET’s effort to commercialize cellulosic ethanol and we asked POET’s vice president for commercial development, Scott Weishaar, how farmers are responding to the project.

AUDIO: Scott Weishaar (3 min MP3)