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Two decades ago, a Minnesota farm boy with a business degree set up residence in a boarded-up ethanol plant in the small South Dakota town of Scotland.

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 06/21/2009 8:49 AM Sibby and the Mitchell Republic bring us this story first; that Sioux Falls paper and DWC come toodling after: State Senator Frank Kloucek is proposing legislation to put some serious limitations and oversight on the ability of our university presidents to serve as highly paid corporate board ...

Sioux Falls-based ethanol maker Poet announced Wednesday the creation of a new division devoted to managing corn cobs, waste wood and other feedstocks for cellulosic ethanol.

POET CEO, Jeff Broin, announced a new division for the company this morning at the Fuel Ethanol Workshop.

With photographs of her seven grandchildren hanging in the background, Pat Thuringer, 75, looks forward to retiring from the Spencer Family YMCA's child care center she's greeted youth at over the last 35 years.

A dozen members of the Siouxland Peace Coalition gathered in front of the federal courthouse in Sioux City Tuesday evening, holding signs and banners.

Saddle up your horse and ride the last days of the open range as the History & Heritage Book Club discusses "Cowboy Life: The Letters of George Philip" at its next meeting.

Junior Sarah Perman, center, concludes the Independent Strollers cast performance Saturday.

Authorities have used DNA testing to identify the victim of a fiery car crash earlier this year in northeast Nebraska.

The body found on February 25, 2009 near Yankton, SD has been identified as 25-year-old Grace Wry of Scotland, SD.

Flooding is forecast to continue for a week or longer on the James River in South Dakota.

PIERRE , S.D. Back in 1904, few towns had a high-faluting, Rolls Royce man, but Murdo Mackenzie was one of them and he could be found shipping trainload after trainload of Texas steers to the grasslands of South Dakota near present day Murdo.

James River near Scotland, SD Story Created: Mar 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM CDT Story Updated: Mar 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM CDT While people in the Columbia area of Brown County watch the James River reach record levels, plans are being made to add water to the flood-swollen river.

Poet's pilot plant in Scotland, South Dakota is able to convert corn cobs into cellulosic ethanol at a rate of 20,000 gallons per year.

James Irish of Sioux Falls celebrated his 80th birthday Thursday, Jan. 29, with a family dinner.

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People in tiny Scotland, South Dakota were shocked to see state Division of Criminal Investigation agents dismantle a meth lab right in the middle of town.

Cellulosic ethanol, the next big hope for a biofuels industry hampered during the past year by volatile commodity price swings and shrinking profit margins, is continuing its slow march toward commercialization.

Poet LLC, the nation's top ethanol producer, has opened the spigots on an $8-million pilot-scale biorefinery at its Scotland, S.D., research center that will produce 20,000 gallons of fuel each year from the corn cobs and fiber normally left behind in fields.

Poet's demo plant is a precursor to a larger $200 million commercial-scale biorefinery scheduled to open in Emmetsburg, Iowa, in 2011.

Following a successful start-up in the fourth quarter of 2008, POET Research Center in Scotland, South Dakota is now producing cellulosic ethanol at a pilot scale at a rate of 20,000 gallons per year using corn ...