{"id":1238,"date":"2013-08-28T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T15:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2017-05-22T21:15:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T21:15:04","slug":"clayton-mcneff-91-highlighted-in-startribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2013\/08\/28\/clayton-mcneff-91-highlighted-in-startribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Clayton McNeff &#8217;91 Highlighted in StarTribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Researchers at SarTec of Anoka are experimenting with weed crops to determine whether <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1239 size-medium\" title=\"Clayton McNeff\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/Clayton-McNeff-1iev3po-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"Clayton McNeff '91\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/Clayton-McNeff-1iev3po-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/Clayton-McNeff-1iev3po-1024x624.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/Clayton-McNeff-1iev3po.jpg 1931w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>farmers can profit by growing oil-rich seeds and processing them into biofuel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ISANTI, MINN. &#8211; On the nagging question of whether growing crops to produce biofuel hurts the nation\u2019s food supply, Clayton McNeff hopes to find a practical answer\u2014in weeds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>McNeff, the co-inventor of technology used to refine biodiesel at the Ever Cat Fuels plant in Isanti, has been working for two years with a team of scientists and farmers to commercially grow two seed-bearing weeds as energy crops. <a title=\"Clayton McNeff Spotlight 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/business\/220898181.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at SarTec of Anoka are experimenting with weed crops to determine whether farmers can profit by growing oil-rich seeds &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48128,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/48128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}