Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'farmers'
Biofuels: is the cure worse than the disease?
Biofuels: is the cure worse than the disease? That is the question posed by Ron Steenblick, and Richard Doornbosch in a recent online publication....
Credit crunch may make it harder for farmers next year
The credit crunch may make it harder for US corn farmers to maintain overdrafts, raise loans and fund farming next year according to to this report from Bloomberg. ...
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...
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...
A biofuels polemic from Huffington Post
If you are interested in the environmental impact of biofuels in the US check this polemic on the Huffington Post. Makes some good points about the end to end efficiency of biofuels in the automotive sector. You can't comment on...
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...
Ethanol subsidies could be safe for a while
Ethanol subsidies could be safe for a while.There's a really nice explanation of why subsidies are hard to abolish in Price of Oil: Hidden Oil Subsidies from Tree Hugger.com and on Huffington Post. I couldn't put it any more clearly...
Is the price of corn related to the price of crude?
Is the price of corn related to the price of crude? Many in the US ethanol business say that it isn't this chap isn't so sure... ...
This doesn't quite ring true to me
There's a long and thorough going piece over on Farm Futures about the Biofuel Smear Campaign. I'm not sure that I agree with it entirely. It is based on the US experience, and that as far as it goes is...
20% of US corn makes ethanol this year
20% of the US corn crop has been used to make ethanol this year, according to a report on WJFW, and around 4m acres of the US were planted with corn....
Farmers want non-farmers to get ethanol loans too
US farmers in Iowa are asking their senators to try and change the way that the US Farm Credit system operates to allow it to loan money to ethanol plants that are not majority owned by farmers. According to Domestic...
EU responds to OECD over biofuels
The European Commission has come out fighting in its assertion that biofuels are a good thing, in response to an earlier comment from the OECD which said that subsidies for biofuels are distorting markets and fueling food price inflation. The...
Biofuels and poorer harvests mean UK meat prices set to rise
Biofuels and poorer harvests mean that UK meat prices are set to rise, according to reports on the BBC this morning. The BBC has missed a key point here, UK farmers will not be badly disadvantaged compared to farmers in...
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...
UK has enough land to meet RTFO says NUF
The UK has enough spare land to grow crops that would enable the country to meet its Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, according to a post over on FWi's Food for Thought blog. Charles Abel says Significantly, the NFU estimates that...
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...
UK farmers and biofuels
UK farmers and biofuels get showcased in this excellent video from Farmers Weekly Interactive....
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...
Food, fuel and water -- who decides?
Food, fuel and water -- who decides? Adding his weight to the food vs fuel argument is Mike Stones on Food for Thought, a Farmers Weekly blog. He quotes Henry Fell, chairman of the UK commercial farmers union who believes...
Combustion or consumption: how to balance biofuels production.
Combustion or consumption: how to balance biofuels production is a question that, is making the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs(IRIN), like Unilever, worried that there will be competition for scarce food resources between biofuelers and people who need...
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