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Corn estimates down in the US

The US Department of Agrculture has lowered its estimates of the volume of corn and soy that will be harvested this year. So 2008 will only be the second largest crop in history. It might have been higher if the weather had been better. That story's in the Des Moines Register . You should subscribe...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-06-2008
Poet to make cellulosic biofuel by year end

Poet LLC, formerly Broin, says it will be making cellulosic ethanol at a plant in Dakota by the end of the year , according to a report in Iowa Farmer Today. It looks like Poet will be using DuPont technology, under an agreement signed in 2006 to make the ethanol. Poet gained funding from the US Department...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-11-2008
Tropical maize may be better than US corn for biofuels

Tropical maize may be better than US corn for biofuels according to Physorg.com . There are researchers in the mid west growing tropical maize, it grows to about 14 feet (about 4m) and because it does not produce ears concentrates sugar in its stem. I guess that it grows in a manner similar to traditional...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-26-2008

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