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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

  • 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

  • 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 to grow more corn: Plant it closer together

    You might have noticed that there are a couple of conversations chuntering on in earlier post s. Mostly these deal with the ability to plant enough corn to sustain the US ethanol business and keep people fed at a reasonable price. Here's breakthrough that is stunning in its simplicity from Iowa Farmer...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-04-2008

  • 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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