EU funds €7.7 million program to produce rubber from guayule and other crops »

By Julie on Oct 9, 2008 in Guayule News | 0 Comments

Known as the EU-PEARLS project, it is being coordinated by Wageningen University in the Netherlands with the involvement of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Spain, and Kazakhstan.  Yulex Corporation is providing support on behalf of the U.S.

The project aims to develop new crops for the production and [...]

Yuma, Arizona names Guayule its Crop of the Week »

By Julie on Aug 25, 2008 in Guayule | 0 Comments

Kurt Nolte, an agriculture agent and Yuma County Cooperative Extension director, picked guayule to spotlight in the Yuma Sun as his Crop of the Week. He writes:
“Clean new technologies make it possible to extract natural rubber, latex, ethanol, non-toxic adhesives and other specialty chemicals from guayule….
Yulex Corp. has been positioning Arizona as the epicenter of a [...]