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ON THE COVER:
MFA Oil has formed a new subsidiary to help its
members grow Miscanthus x giganteus on marginal farmland in
Missouri and Arkansas. This hybrid grass, seen here in autumn on the
University of Illinois Experimental Station, would initially be processed
into biomass fuel pellets, but could also be used as a feedstock for
ethanol. Photo by Don Hamerman, courtesy Institute for Genomic
Biology/University of Illinois
