Season 1 | Episode 8
POSTED: May 21, 2025
Homegrown Fuels podcast features David Hallberg who began advocating for ethanol in the late 1970s as a Congressional staffer. He helped craft language for the tax credit (VEETC) that supported ethanol blending, started the RFA to rally biofuels supporters, and has worked on ethanol policy development since.
Season 4 | Episode 6
POSTED: May 20, 2025
S4 E6 This month's SFS panel preview podcast features Mariajose Parra, US Biofuels Sr. Market Reporter at S&P Global Commodity Insights
Season 4 | Episode 5
POSTED: May 19, 2025
This month's FEW panel preview podcast features, Michael Humphrey, Technical Services Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
Season 1 | Episode 7
POSTED: May 8, 2025
Homegrown Fuels podcast features Bill Gibbons, SDSU professor of microbiology and extension administrator, who got his start on campus in the late 1970s in a tiny demonstration gasohol plant that attracted hundreds of farmers, and a few politicians.
Season 1 | Episode 6
POSTED: Apr 17, 2025
Homegrown Fuels Podcast Episode: 6. Special EPM Podcast Series hosted by Sue Retka Schill featuring Doug Durante. Doug Durante, Clean Fuels Development Coalition, describes how Congressional support started in 1977 with energy security concerns and evolved to focus more on ethanol’s clean air benefits. He’s co-author of Gasolinegate: What’s in Our Gasoline is Killing Us.
Season 4 | Episode 4
POSTED: Apr 8, 2025
S4 E4 This month's Ethanol Producer Magazine podcast features, Jodi Johnson, CFO at Gevo North Dakota
Season 1 | Episode 5
POSTED: Apr 3, 2025
Homegrown Fuels Podcast Episode: 5. Special EPM Podcast Series hosted by Sue Retka Schill featuring Randy Doyal. Randy applied to be a carpenter, but landed in “cook” at a new 1 MMgy ethanol plant in Portales, NM. He worked his way up to plant manager, and ultimately moved to Claremont, MN, in 1995 to manage Al-Corn Clean Fuel.
Season 1 | Episode 4
POSTED: Mar 20, 2025
Homegrown Fuels Podcast Episode: 4. Special EPM Podcast Series hosted by Sue Retka Schill featuring Keith Kor. Long time ethanol manager Keith Kor recounts the early days of ethanol production, in what would now be considered primitive facilities.
Season 1 | Episode 3
POSTED: Mar 6, 2025
Homegrown Fuels Podcast Episode: 3. Special EPM Podcast Series hosted by Sue Retka Schill featuring Shirley Ball. Sporting a red hat, toting DDG cookies and a 5-gallon still, Shirley Ball advocated for ethanol as WIFE Energy Chair and as executive director of EPAC.
Season 1 | Episode 2
POSTED: Feb 20, 2025
Homegrown Fuels Podcast Episode: 2. Special EPM Podcast Series hosted by Sue Retka Schill featuring Todd Sneller. Nebraska was the epicenter of the gasohol movement in the 1970s and ‘80s. Todd Sneller, former Nebraska Ethanol Board Administrator, talks about how it all got started.
Season 1 | Episode 1
POSTED: Feb 6, 2025
Homegrown Fuels Podcast Episode: 1. Special EPM Podcast Series hosted by Sue Retka Schill featuring Mike Bryan. Ethanol advocates had to be creative in the early days. Mike Bryan shares stories of his involvement starting at a North Dakota ethanol plant before NCGA and ultimately launching BBI International.