This Friday, April 22, marks the day Earth Day has been celebrated for the past 40 years. Many people pledge to help on Earth Day to secure a healthy environment for the future. This can be is done through environmental education, planting trees, water conservation, promoting a green environment, and more.
America’s corn farmers also help the environment every year. They have reduced greenhouse gas emissions, reduced nitrogen utilization, and grow more on less acres. The corn our farmers grow is used for food, feed, fuel, and fiber – all that from just one crop!
The starch portion of the corn kernel is used to make ethanol fuel, and the protein portion, a byproduct of the ethanol fuel, of the corn kernel is used to feed livestock -- beef, dairy, poultry, and pork. Ethanol, produced by America’s corn farmers, reduces our dependency on foreign oil, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, creates jobs in America, and promotes American agriculture. There are just some of the many ways America’s corn farmers are helping the Earth – which is an everyday habit for them.
In Nebraska, the Lincoln Earth Day event will be celebrated on Saturday, April 23 in Antelope Park at the Auld Recreation Center. The Nebraska Corn Board and Nebraska Ethanol Board are partnering together to promote ethanol. On display will be a flexible fuel vehicle (FFV) truck and blender pump. Blender pumps mix ethanol fuel together for use in FFVs. The fuel blends in blender pumps can be E10, 10% ethanol and 90% regular gasoline to E85, 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline. 
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