Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'farm'
VeraSun outlines process for farmers to sell corn elsewhere
VeraSun has outlined a process for farmers to be able to tell if their corn will be available for sale elsewhere, according to the Des Moines Register. ...
Verasun tries to exit corn purchase contracts
Verasun which has filed for bankruptcy protection has asked the courts to terminate a number of its corn contracts, says ICIS news. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS. About ICIS)While the move would help Verasun get back on its feet, if...
How much stover to leave
Iowa Farmer Today (I should take out a subscription I'm quoting the publication so much at the moment) has a good piece looking at how much stover should be left on the fields after corn harvesting. Stover could be good...
1000 entries and what have we learned?
Put out the flags. I've reached the 1000 post mark. I started this in October 2006 with an open if sceptical mind. Its been a lot of fun so far. I've met a whole bunch of people who have commented...
The Wall St Journal has a low opinion of the farm bill
The Wall St Journal has a pretty low opinion of the farm bill. Written like it is, it is hard to disagree with the opinion piece. Hat tip to the conservativerevolution blog....
US Farm Bill 2007 Taxation proposals
Some of the key proposals in the US Farm Bill 2007, confusingly called “HEARTLAND, HABITAT, HARVEST AND HORTICULTURE ACT OF 2007”have been made public. Hattip to Phillip Brasher at the DesMoines Register.com who writes the Cash Crops blog. Philip says...
US Agriculture bills, history and future
The US agriculture bill 2007/2008 will have a dramatic impact on the biofuels and food landscape the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy has a very readable document looking at the history of this iconic piece of American Legislation. I...
US farm Bill 2007 more proposals
There are more proposals to be debated as the US Farm Bill 2007 gets closer to enactment, according to 25x25, a US pro-biofuel pressure group. The US house of representative has agreed a proposal, which is different from proposals from...
Canadian's use farm waste for biofuels
Canada's Shane and Evan Chrapko who made a packet in dot.coms and got out while the getting was good, have followed Vindod Kohlsa another web entrepeneur into biofuels, using a surprisingly similar approach. According to Blognation's the two are bankrolling...
Farmland prices are rising
Farmland prices are rising because of biofuels, according to the New York Times. DEKALB, Ill. — While much of the nation worries about a slumping real estate market, people in Midwestern farm country are experiencing exactly the opposite. Take, for...
let us farm set aside land Europe farmers say
Let us farm set aside land, Europe's farmers are saying to the EU, according to Farm Policy.com. Currently about 8% of EU farming land lies fallow under a decision in the 1990s to eliminate grain surpluses. Now these surpluses could...
The US Farm Bill
There's a quick round up of some of the effects of the last US farmbill and suggesgtions for this year's over on Tree Hugger. Hattip to blueskymining....
US Farm Bill 2007
The US Farm Bill 2007 will underpin quite a lot of US agriculture through subsidies and price supports -- which make it hard for non US farmers to compete in that market. It must be one of the largest pieces...
Curing one addiction could cure another
It is possible that farmers in parts of Latin America are turning from drugs to another cashcrop, produce for biofuels, according to Making Biodiesel. It would be great wouldn't it if we could cure two addictions with one biofuel crop?...
The US Food Bill farming and fuel
Dan Imhoff, he explains how the farm bill links the US farming, food and by extension biofuels through state aid for crops like corn, cotton, wheat, soya and rice....
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