Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'USDA'
USDA wants biorefinery grant requests for new technologies
The USDA wants requests for loans to build biofuel plants that do not use corn starch as the raw material starting point. The Biorefinery Assistance Program provides loan guarantees for the development, construction and retrofitting of viable commercial-scale biorefineries producing...
US Government offers small grants to biofuel firms
The US government started asking for grant applications as part of its Clean Cities programme. This includes biofuel from biomass. Also the US department of Agriculture is offering grants to help turn forest waste into energy. Worth checking out. ...
Webinar on US grain outlook
Part of CBOT is offering a free webinar on the outlook for the US grain harvest this year today at 2-3pm central US time. That's two days before the US Department of Agriculture is due to release USDA Crop Production...
US on track to deliver second biggest ever corn crop
The US is on track to deliver the country's second biggest ever corn crop, according to numbers from the US department of agriculture and reported on ICIS news.(Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS)My pal William Lemos' report says:The USDA...
US ethanol demand for corn 2008
There was an interesting speech, the other day by Joseph Glauber, the US Department of Agriculture's cheif economist. The key passage for us is: The U.S. corn market will continue to be dominated by ethanol production in the coming year....
Will 2008 be the year that society turns against biofuels?
Will 2008 be the year that society turns against biofuels? Big questions today, but with good reason. Food costs alone will continue to rise because of the use of food crops to make biofuels. I know that the amounts are...
Autumn the season of mellow fruitfulness is coming
Autumn the season of mellow fruitfulness is coming, but will there be enough grain to feed the world through the winter, and drive them to the markets? The numbers for the US have not settled down yet. In March, according...
Four US biofuel projects get $97m in loans from the US Department of Agriculture
Four US biofuel projects get $97m in loans from the US Department of Agriculture, according to Green car Congress. The firms are * Clean Burn Fuels LLC, in Hoke, County, N.C., is approved to receive $10 million from the Section...
Just how politically sustainable is using food for fuel in the US?
Just how politically sustainable is using food for fuel in the US. There's an interesting post over on dtn Ag Policy Blog (limited trial, and limited access, I had to pretend to be Canadian) about the sustainability of the US'...
Biofuels from the USDA
"The next couple of years are going to be difficult transition years, but I believe that markets work well and that a certain number of ethanol plants that are being planned at the moment will not be built,” Thomas Dorr,...
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