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October 4, 2009
Sunflower Power? An Entrepreneur's First Steps
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July 12, 2009
Sunny Disposition
New bioenergy plant, sunflowers transform Dove Creek ...
January 23, 2009
Squeezing Sunflowers
Dove Creek plant begins process to create cooking ...
January 6, 2009
San Juan Bioenergy earns grant
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December 11, 2008
Seeds of success
Bioenergy plant looks to be role model as it begins ...
December 11, 2008
San Juan Bioenergy - Durango Herald Editorial
New energy economy represented ...
December 5, 2008
Oiling up SW Colorado
San Juan Bioenergy set to begin ...
November 28, 2008
San Juan Bioenergy Grand Opening Saturday Dec. 13!
Join San Juan Bioenergy in unveiling our first integrated oil crush & bioenergy production facility! 2 PM, Saturday, December 13 Dove Creek, ...
August 16, 2008
Growers fuel bioenergy
San Juan Bioenergy Manager Jeff Berman updated an interested crowd of farmers and residents Thursday during the Southwestern ...
July 1, 2008
Sunflowers Bloom in New Areas
In the Four Corners area, farmers planted about 15,000 acres of sunflowers this year to supply a new processing plant. San Juan Bioenergy, Dove Creek, ...
February 20, 2008
San Juan Bioenergy Gets the Climate Equation Right
In the past week, newspapers around the globe have been reporting two new studies finding that biofuels production exacerbates climate change. We at San Juan ...
February 4, 2008
A consumer’s guide to biodiesel
As diesel prices climb higher than Everest, many of us with diesel trucks or vehicles are considering an alternative fuel such as biodiesel. Considering our cold ...
January 26, 2008
Research Center reviews farming
About 25 farmers and Colorado State University officials gathered Thursday morning in a meeting room of the Pleasant View Fire Department to discuss research projects ...
January 15, 2008
Bioenergy contracts with farmers
San Juan Bioenergy announced plans to buy organic sunflower and safflower seeds this year, in addition to the sunflower seeds the organization already has been ...
December 11, 2007
Manager’s New Year ‘08 Update
Welcome to the San Juan Bioenergy members' area. I would like to wish you a Happy New year, and am pleased to provide you ...
October 3, 2007
In Dolores County, Sunflowers Are Gold
“Biodiesel really is the field of dreams,” says Daniel Fernandez, Colorado State University Extension Agent for Dolores County, home to the San Juan Bioenergy plant, ...
September 24, 2007
Dove Creek Gets Re-Energized
Dove Creek farmer Bill Waschke has high hopes for the San Juan Bionergy Plant that broke ground here on Saturday, Sept. 8. “This is going to ...
September 8, 2007
Groundbreaking for the San Juan Bioenergy facility
Colorado governor Bill Ritter and District 3 congressman John Salazar were among the dignitaries, investors, farmers and friends who joined San Juan Bioenergy staff for ...
September 6, 2007
KSUT interview with Jeff Berman
Interview with Jeff Berman about the upcoming groundbreaking. [audio:http://sanjuanbioenergy.com/media/ksut_0906.mp3] Transcript and audio at ...
September 1, 2007
Biodiesel plant sprouts from ground Sept. 8
After nearly three years of waiting, the San Juan Biodiesel announced Thursday that they will break ground on an oil crush and biodiesel facility within a ...
June 5, 2007
Forecast for FFA: Bright, variable
Organizers and speakers at this week's Colorado FFA Convention say the future of farming for high school students is bright but that agriculture ...
January 11, 2007
State grant boosts biodiesel project
The state of Colorado has kicked in $100,000 to move along a plan to build a biodiesel plant in Dove Creek. "It's great ...