USDA Officials in the Midwest Look at Novel Ways to Create New Energy from Waste Material
![An ethanol plant in Bairstown, Iowa, may soon begin producing fuel from waste materials. An ethanol plant in Bairstown, Iowa, may soon begin producing fuel from waste materials.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121019185638im_/http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/5017973998_b37e085319.jpg)
An ethanol plant in Bairstown, Iowa, may soon begin producing fuel from waste materials.
After visiting a cutting-edge biofuels facility in rural Iowa recently, a group of USDA Rural Development state directors are thinking about the tremendous global implications of that plant. Read more »