{"id":408,"date":"2007-02-28T08:22:48","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T15:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=408"},"modified":"2007-02-28T13:39:04","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T20:39:04","slug":"northern-prairie-holds-fundraiser-for-ndsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Northern Prairie Holds Fundraiser for NDSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Mark Dillon\" title=\"Mark Dillon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/dillon_mark.jpg\" \/>The Northern Prairie Chapter held a  benefit fundraiser for the North Dakota State University Student NAMA Chapter on  Thursday, February 22, during the International Crop Expo in  Grand Forks, ND. The featured speaker, Mark Dillon of the  Golden Growers Cooperative, presented \u00e2\u20ac\u0153An Overall Perspective on Ethanol Today  and Tomorrow.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mark shared with the group where we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been, where we are now,  and where we are going within the ethanol industry.<\/p>\n<p>Mark has served the past seven  years on the board of the American Coalition for Ethanol, and for three years on  the Northern Crops Institute Industry Advisory Board. He and others formed  ProGold, a high fructose corn syrup processing plant in 1996, and also created  Golden Growers Cooperative, a group of 2,100 corn growers who own a percentage  of ProGold.<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights from Dillon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  presentation were: <u>Where We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve Been<\/u> &#8211; Henry Ford built the Model T to run  on ethanol; this concept disappeared for about 8 decades and then came Gasohol  in the 90\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s; <u>Where We Are Now<\/u> &#8211; Today, there will be approximately 6.2  billion gallons of ethanol produced in 2007, which is an increase of 2,500% in  27 years. There are roughly 117 ethanol plants in operation and approximately 70  under construction; <u>Where We Are Going<\/u> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c With the two legal blends of  ethanol today, E10 and E85, blender pumps may possibly be the next hot topic.  Consumers would have the option to select the % of ethanol versus gasoline they  want to put into their vehicles at the pump. The biggest challenge &#8211; the  automotive industry working with the ethanol  companies.<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen local Northern Prairie  NAMA members attended the meeting, raising $450 for the North Dakota State University&#8217;s Student NAMA chapter&#8217;s upcoming April  trip to the National NAMA conference and competition in Dallas, TX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Prairie Chapter held a benefit fundraiser for the North Dakota State University Student NAMA Chapter on Thursday, February 22, during the International Crop Expo in Grand Forks, ND. The featured speaker, Mark Dillon of the Golden Growers Cooperative, presented \u00e2\u20ac\u0153An Overall Perspective on Ethanol Today and Tomorrow.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mark shared with the group where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,36,277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-activities","category-general","category-student-nama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}