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  • Corn price rise: speculative bubble

    The Reuter's person on the spot at the Chicago Board of Trade says the price rise corn experienced this year was due to a speculative bubble caused by money moving out of stocks into commodities. The price is falling as the economy is changing. Of course there's no discussion on the effect of...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-24-2008

  • US on track to deliver second biggest ever corn crop

    The US is on track to deliver the country's second biggest ever corn crop , according to numbers from the US department of agriculture and reported on ICIS news. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS ) My pal William Lemos' report says: The USDA said in its monthly report it expects 12.07bn...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008

  • 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

  • Ethanol is great, (but not to popular technology)

    Ethanol is great if you're standing for election in the US this year, says Popular Technology and then starts a balanced video about that . The nugget in the middle of this video is from the University of Minnesota: If the US converted all of its corn into ethanol for fuel it would equivalent to...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008

  • 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 on what I've written and offered suggestions and I'd like to thank you for that. I've...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-16-2008

  • Biofuels drive up food prices: Bodman and Scafer

    There's been a definitive piece of work on biofuels and food prices presented to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on 11 June chaired by Jeff Bingaman . Two secretaries of state Samuel W. Bodman (energy) and Edward T. Schafer (agriculture) respond to a series of questions from...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-13-2008

  • Surely taking corn out of the market will raise the price

    I've been in conversation with David Benson, about the role of biofuels in the current round of food price rises across the world. We've been chatting in the comments a couple of posts back . I don't think that we are too far apart in our appreciation of the situation. For what it's worth...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-29-2008
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