Using Ethanol Byproduct As A Glue Reduces Costs

Corn isn’t the only crop alternative fuel advocates are hoping will help reduce the world’s dependence on fossil fuels.While the corn-based ethanol industry continues to grow, sceintists at the USDA Dairy Forage Research Center in Madison are finding ways to use bacteria to make fuel from switch grass and alfalfa.Gil Halsted reports on one project that hopes to produce both fuel and industrial glue for use in making plywood…