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• On Top of the Hill
• Development Momentum Continues
• Division Co-Sponsors Biomass Workshop
• Division Forms Biofuels Task Force
• US, EU Exchange Students and Faculty
• Balkan Students Excel in Bumpers College
• Preston La Ferney Retires
• Bob Riggs Retires
• Nolan Arthur Retires
• Graduate Course for HS Teachers
• Delta Classic Raises $35,000
• Barham Endows Scholarship Fund
• Wall Street Journal Discovers Arkansas Berries
• Tailgate Party set for Alabama Game
• Cattle Conference and Marketing Symposium
• Field Days for Crops, Forestry, Wildlife
• College Hosts 4-H O-Rama
• Vegetable Field Day
• Jake Phillips, 1930-2006
• H. Don Scott, 1944-2006
• Darell Widick, 1942-2006
• ACT Group Tours Scotland
• Hospitality Course at Basin Park Hotel
• Apparel Students Visit NYC
• BAEG Designs in Top Three
• Rogers Creek Trail Dedicated
• College Hosts Kauffman Scholars
• College Hosts Gifted & Talented
• Technology Classrooms Ready for Fall
• Carnall Hall Centennial Finale Set


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Public invited to workshop on ‘Energy and Value-Added Products from Biomass’

This rice combine and other equipment on the Stobaugh Brothers Farms near Atkins run on a biodiesel fuel blend. Robert, Barry and Bart Stobaugh favor policies to encourage production of biofuels in Arkansas.

A workshop for legislators, the business and manufacturing community, community leaders and interested citizens on the potential for producing energy and value-added products from biomass in Arkansas is set for Aug. 24 and 25 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Little Rock.

U.S. Rep. Marion Berry (D, AR, 1st District) will deliver an opening address and former Senator Dale Bumpers will be the keynote luncheon speaker on Aug. 25.

Vice President for Agriculture Milo Shult said speakers will include leaders of companies now producing biofuels and other biomass products, including Cal McCastlain of Patriot Biofuels in Stuttgart, Gary McChesney of Viceroy Acquisition Corporation (formerly Eastman Chemical) at Batesville, and Tommy Smith of Potlatch Corporation at Warren.

The first day, Aug. 24, will begin at 2 p.m. with “Bioenergy 101, a pre-conference primer” by Ed Clausen, UA College of Engineering; Michael Popp and Matthew Pelkki, U of A System Division of Agriculture; and Jim Wimberly, Winrock International.

Shult said major topics for presentations and audience discussion on Aug. 25 are biomass feedstocks, biodiesel and other biofuels, biorefineries, value-added products, economic development benefits, environmental considerations, business opportunities and state bioenergy policies.

To register for the workshop, visit www.uark.edu/ua/biomass/ or contact Jerry King, UA professor of chemical engineering, at 479-575-5979 or biomass@uark.edu. A registration fee of $30 ($50 after Aug. 7) includes a reception, lunch and workshop materials.

Shult said the workshop is partially funded by a U.S. Department of Energy grant from the Southern States Energy Board (SSEB).  Other sponsors of the workshop are Agricultural Council of Arkansas; the Arkansas Department of Economic Development-Arkansas Energy Office; Arkansas Farm Bureau; the College of Engineering at UA, Fayetteville; the Poultry Federation; the U of A System’s Division of Agriculture and Winrock International.

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