Moines Des Register 03-04-07 Grassroots: ISU program to cover bioenergy policies, alternative crops Iowa State University and ISU Extension will offer a program, "Alternative Crops and Alternative Policies for Bioenergy," from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday. Twenty-nine ISU Extension county offices are scheduled to carry the program live. Contact a local Extension office for locations where the program will be carried or go to www.extension.iastate.edu/news/2007/feb/071201.htm on the Web. The program will discuss the economics of liquid fuels produced by plant sources other than corn, the market for biofuels and what it will take for the United States to significantly reduce its consumption of fossil fuels. The program will be available online to the public starting March 12. ISU economists and bioeconomy experts will address five issues and hold a question-and-answer Issues session. include the potential to produce liquid fuels from cellulosic feedstocks, environmental effects of alternative feedstocks, farm economics of growing alternative energy feedstocks, the impact of biofuel production and processing on communities, regions and statewide development, and bioenergy policy options. Borlaug Center report fills part of Nashua program The annual meeting of the Northeast Iowa Ag Experimental Association will be held from 9:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the research farm near Nashua...