State Biodiesel Company Challenges Tractor Pullers

Waterloo, Wis. – August 7, 2006 – As this summer’s tractor pulling season enters the homestretch, participants in Wisconsin’s inaugural Biodiesel Challenge are running a closely contested race that could be decided during the nationally sanctioned event in Beaver Dam August 12.

Sponsored by North Prairie Productions, LLC, a company building a large-scale, commercial biodiesel plant in south-central Wisconsin, the Biodiesel Challenge presents a year-end monetary purse to pullers in the Wisconsin Tractor Pullers Association (WTPA) Super Farm Tractor class based on season-long point accumulations. Competitor Mike Linnehan, Sparta, Wis., and his tractor “Green Power” leads the Biodiesel Challenge with 139 points; second place is held by Clint Dornfeld with 135 points aboard “Hayride 2” while the team of Mike Eagen and Bob Gray pulling with Poltergist sit in third place with 134 points.

“Tractor pulls are a great summer pastime here in Wisconsin and the board of directors of North Prairie Productions couldn’t think of a better way to highlight the powerful benefits of clean-burning, domestically produced biodiesel than by promoting its use with tractor pullers,” relates Jeff Pieterick, vice president of North Prairie Productions, LLC. “Many of these tractor pullers have family farms or are farmers themselves, so it was a natural partnership for us. And it seems like all of these competitors understand the intricacies of diesel engine performance and realize the advantage of using biodiesel in their high-performance, competition tractors as well as in their trucks and tractors back home on the farm.”

To start things off, North Prairie Productions provided a supply of biodiesel to any and all WTPA Super Farm Tractor competitors willing to accept the WTPA North Prairie Productions Biodiesel Challenge and introduce biodiesel usage into their fuel program. Everyone did.

Participating tractors can be identified at pulling events by a special decal indicating that they are “Powered by biodiesel provided by North Prairie Productions.”

Biodiesel is a domestically produced, renewable fuel made from animal fats and vegetable oils, such as soybeans that is safe for compression-ignition, diesel engine without modification. Made primarily from soybeans, it is a cleaner-burning diesel fuel that also is simple to use, biodegradable, nontoxic and essentially free of sulfur and aromatics.

As a pure fuel, biodiesel contains no petroleum but it is typically blended with petroleum diesel to create biodiesel blends from five percent (B-5) to 20 percent (B-20). Biodiesel significantly improves the lubricity of petroleum diesel fuel at levels as low as 2 percent (B2) and therefore is a preferred addition to petroleum-based, ultra-low sulfur fuels.

North Prairie Productions, LLC, is based in Waterloo, Wisconsin, with intentions of building a large-scale, commercial biodiesel plant in the south-central part of the state. Additional company information and background on biodiesel is available on the company website at www.npnrg.com or by calling toll-free at 877-299-2435.

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