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Webinar on US grain outlook

Part of CBOT is offering a free webinar on the outlook for the US grain harvest this year today at 2-3pm central US time. That's two days before the US Department of Agriculture is due to release USDA Crop Production and Supply and Demand report on October 10th.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2008
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
A corny car

Sue, my colleague, found this picture of a corn built car on the Gas 2.0 blog in a post about Dow Chemical and Ford Motor Co and the future of fuels and motoring.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-25-2008
US almost out of corns stocks by harvest 09

The US will be almost out of corn stocks by harvest 09, according to Phil Brasher in the Des Moines Register. You must read the article it points up the complete failure of corn to ethanol as a sensible economic or fuel policy . Key quote 1 Corn supplies are projected to fall by one-third to just more...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-24-2008
Wall St shockwaves travel through ethanol: Updated

Wall St shockwaves are hitting a number of companies in the Ethanol business says Reuters in a report last Wednesday. The report looks at Aventine and Verasun and the impact of a capital squeeze and rising corn prices. Management in those firms, and many more, will be working hard over the next few months...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-19-2008
Wall st shockwaves travel through ethanol

Wall St shockwaves are hitting a number of companies in the Ethanol business says Reuters in a report last Wednesday. The report looks at Aventine and Verasun and the impact of a capital squeeze and rising corn prices. Management in those firms, and many more, will be working hard over the next few months...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-19-2008
Interview with Geoff Broin CEO Poet

The industrious chaps over at earth2tech have secured an email interview with Geff Broin, ceo of Poet industries which recently announced plans to build a cellulosic ethanol plant by the end of the year. He's a big fan of subsidies, and makes a good point about the economics of processed food. What...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-18-2008
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
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
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 source of cellulose for cellulosic ethanol in a couple of years time. But there...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-04-2008

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