Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'grains'
Antibiotics at heart of corn ethanol
Some US corn ethanol producers are using penicillin and three other antibiotics in corn fermentation process says Minnesota Public Radio. /**/ Why? To ensure that the yeast...
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...
Looking at the economics of distillers grains
Nice piece in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader looking at the way that sales of distillers grains is helping to support the ethanol industry in the US.Historically, distillers grain represented 10 percent of an ethanol plant's revenue stream, said Jerry...
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... ...
US biofuel industry says: don't blame us for food price hikes
The US National Biodiesel Board is telling people that the rise in prices at grocery stores is down to the rise in fuel prices not down to the diversion of food crops in the US into fuel. Joe Jobe, the...
Biofuel could destabilise society: FAO
Increases in the prices of basic food products could spark "social tension" in developing countries, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Director-General Jacques Diouf said in an interview published Friday, in the FT and quoted by...
Comparative econonmics of first and second generation biofuels
A study in the comparative economics of first and second generation biofuels has been published in Biofuels Bioproducts and Biorefining, a Society of Chemical Industry journal. The key finding in the paper from Mark Wright and Robert Brown, of the...
German millers worry about rising bread prices
Germany's millers met at the week end to discuss the effects that the demand for corn as fuel compared to food is having now in rising bread prices. They want a scienific evaluation of the amount of land that will...
Corn, distillers grains and cattle feed
Some cattlemen think that using corn to make ethanol could not be the drain on resources that others believe will be the case. They believe that if the price of grains remains low then it makes sense to feed them...
UK Bioethanol facility
Recently, Green Spirit Fuels said that HSBC bank will fund a bioethanol plant in the south of England. Green Spirit’s Wessex Biofuels subsidiary will build the plant at Henstridge, Somerset ()....
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