Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'agriculture'
Meatpackers say aid to ethanol plants would be unfair and discriminatory
US meat producers are saying in the Des Moines Register that aid to ethanol producers that are facing trouble because of movements in the price of corn over the previous year would be unfair and "would be a startling new...
Distillers grains and cattle.
OK this is slightly off beam, but a lot of people are very keen of feeding distillers grains to cattle. For some ethanol plants it is the most profitable part of the business. Animal husbandry is not an area that...
Listen to Barak Obama's take on biofuels
You can hear Barak Obama talking about biofuels on Good fuels. ...
FAO wants biofuel support examined and outlines world biofuel capacity
The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation wants subsisidies, tariffs and tax-breaks for biofuels production examined and possibly reduced in a press release which marks the publication of its annual report The State of Food. That report makes a compelling...
Ethanol is a stepping stone
This is interesting, and would be more interesting if there were a measure of how much diverting corn into ethanol (25% of the corn crop in 2007 produced 2.65% of the US total demand for gasoline in 2006) had an...
Biofuels and the whole of non-meat farming
Andy Posner, over on the Huffington Post raises some good questions about land use in a world where we're increasingly using biofuels. I suggest in a comment that perhaps a little high-fructose corn syrup should be fermented to ease the...
1 bn acres of unused agricultural land world wide could produce biofuels
1 bn acres of unused agricultural land world wide could produce biofuels, according to the Stanford News Service in a piece called Feeding and fuelling the future: the bioenergy potential of reviving abandoned agricultural land.The authors estimate that this is...
Biofuels are involved in "a crime against humanity again"
Biofuels are involved in a crime against humanity again. Only this time it’s NOT growing biofuels that would be the crime. Confused? World opinion certainly is. This time its Brazil's president Lula who says that discarding biofuels would be the...
How much land will we need for biofuels in the UK
There's a useful exchange in Hansard, the UK's parliamentary record this week on biofuels. In a written answer. Ian Pearson (MP for Dudley South and the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) says that to meet the...
UN FAO has more doubts about biofuels
Over on Greenbang, there's an interesting comment on the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's latest thoughts on biofuels and the spike they are causing in agricultural commodity prices. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hIipI7rsh-IaoutsJKgAmzG5Mh0gD8UBKQ6O1 Its worth reading the report on Regan Suzuki's comments on the...
US small farmers think biofuels won't hit the world's poor
Ethanol production has had a profound impact on U.S. agriculture in recent years. Now that more than two billion bushels of U.S. corn are used for ethanol production, a legitimate question is continually being asked—are people going hungry due to...
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...
Biofuels may help poor farmers: World Watch
Biofuels may help poor farmers, according to a book out today "Biofuels for Transport: Global Potential and Implications for Energy and Agriculture," authored by the Worldwatch Institute and published by Earthscan. The authors say: In addition, growth in biofuels production...
Biofuels are changing agricultural economics
Biofuels are changing agricultural economics according to the OECD and the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation in a report on ICIS News. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) This is...
Biofuels could be very good for third world: UN
Biofuels could be very good for the third world Gustavo Best head of energy policy at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation, talking to Reuters. He draws an interesting parallel with the Green Revolution of the 1960s: "It's probably the...
Now US Grocers want an end to corn subsidies and ethanol tariffs
US Grocers want an end to US corn subsidies and tariffs. In a recent statement their trade body said: America's biofuels policy must be pursued thoughtfully and deliberately, taking into full account the possible unintended consequences of a sharp increase...
Cereal demand and production is going to be tight in 2007
Production of cereals and demand for them is going to be tight in 2007, according to a report from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, in a statement released yesterday. The FAO Says World cereal production in 2007 is on...
Doomed, doomed, I tell's ya
Over on the Doom Index there are more calculations about the US ability to grow enough crops to replace all the oil it imports. (Hint: They still can't)....
What ethanol is doing to corn prices in the US
I culled these stats from the Cost of Corn, a report on Kellogg's profitability last year in mlive.com (everything Michigan) in a report by B. Candace Beeke. * Ethanol production adds 30 cents to the value of a bushel of...
Potential size of UK biofuels from crops
Chris Rhodes’ Energy Balance blog has an interesting insight into how bioethanol could feature in the UK's future fuel mix. Rhodes examines some of the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry’s Policy Bulletin on Energy Policy (published October 2006). I think...
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