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Corn is the foundation of US fast food.

Interesting, if off topic, Maribo has piece on the way that the US fast food industry is built on corn. I'll have the corn with a side of corn , too.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008
Meatpackers say aid to ethanol plants would be unfair and discriminatory

US meat producers are saying in the Des Moines Register that aid to ethanol producers that are facing trouble because of movements in the price of corn over the previous year would be unfair and "would be a startling new development that discriminates in favour of one segment of American agriculture...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-23-2008
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 I know much, if anything about. At home we struggle to keep goldfish alive above three months...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-22-2008
Ethanol doubts in the heartland

It is worth checking out a story in the Des Moines Register, posted on 17 October by Dan Piller Ethanol cos. hurt by prices may get help from USDA. Read the comments.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-20-2008
Listen to Barak Obama's take on biofuels

You can hear Barak Obama talking about biofuels on Good fuels.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-14-2008
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
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
Miscanthus research in Iowa

The Iowa State University is looking hard at Miscanthus as a potential biofuel feedstock , says the Des Moines Register. Miscanthus, on the other hand, holds the potential to make up to 2times as much ethanol per ton as corn. A University of Illinois study in 2005 showed that using corn or switchgrass...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-03-2008
A biofuels polemic from Huffington Post

If you are interested in the e nvironmental impact of biofuels in the US check this polemic on the Huffington Post . Makes some good points about the end to end efficiency of biofuels in the automotive sector. You can't comment on it there, so perhaps you'd like to do so here.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-29-2008

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