Officials with a California company will hold a meeting tonight  in the southwest Iowa town of Menlo to unveil a proposed first-of-its-kind bio-refinery project. It aims to convert non-food bio-mass into bio-ammonia, or anhydrous. Officials with San...

A San Francisco based company is planning to build an $80-million biomass plant in west-central Iowa. SynGest C.E.O. Jack Oswald says the plant near Menlo will be the first in the U.S. to convert biomass, primarily corncobs, into anhydrous ammonia for fertilizer and...