MOTT, N.D. – In spite of drought this summer, some farmers in southwestern North Dakota are planning to harvest a nice-yielding dryland corn crop that will go to the Gevo ND ethanol plant – low carbon corn that was strip-till planted with very little actual nitrogen.
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