With Mitt Romney closing in on the number of delegates needed to secure the Republican presidential nomination, talk is turning to who he will select as his running mate. And while dozens of names have been thrown around as possibilities, the discussion always seems to end up at these five names.
Click here for a look at them, as well as for a link to our new Election 2012 website:
With Mitt Romney closing in on the number of delegates needed to secure the Republican presidential nomination, talk is turning to who he will select as his running mate. And while dozens of names have been thrown around as possibilities, the discussion always seems to end up at these five names. Click on the headline for a look at them, as well as for a link to our new Election 2012 website.
Potato breeder David Holm has put some color in the potato business during his 34-year career with Colorado State University.
But the rainbow of hues he helped introduce in today’s tubers is more than just cosmetic.
“The more pigmented they are higher the antioxidant level,” he said from his office at the San Luis Valley Research Center. “We need to educate the public about good naturally-occurring chemicals in plants. If we can get this stuff in a natural form, it’s probably much better than if we are taking it in pill form.”
Here in the valley, where planting is currently underway, potatoes grow faster than anywhere else in the world, making them the crop of choice in an area that also produces alfalfa hay and small grains. The 90 square miles of production, combined with a growing region in the northern part of the state, makes Colorado the fifth largest potato grower nationally.
A highly successful farmer-owned ethanol processor in Western Kansas is pioneering new anaerobic digesters that will eventually replace the plant’s need for fossil fuel — predominantly natural gas — with methane gas derived from feedyard manure, hog carcasses and other farm and municipal wastes.
Western Plains Energy LLC was recently awarded a $5 million federal grant, one of the first in the nation dispersed through the 2008 Farm Bill energy title’s revised and renamed Repowering Assistance Program.
