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USDA wants biorefinery grant requests for new technologies

The USDA wants requests for loans to build biofuel plants that do not use corn starch as the raw material starting point. The Biorefinery Assistance Program provides loan guarantees for the development, construction and retrofitting of viable commercial-scale biorefineries producing advanced biofuels...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-01-2008
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
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
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
Biofuels and the whole of non-meat farming

Andy Posner, over on the Huffington Post raises some good questions about land use in a world where we're increasingly using biofuels. I suggest in a comment that perhaps a little high-fructose corn syrup should be fermented to ease the US obesity crisis. Fat chance of that happening then.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-14-2008
Switching to switchgrass isn't easy

Switching to switchgrass isn't going to be easy, according to this useful piece from redorbit. Worth reading.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-02-2008
Gulf of Mexico deadzone all bad for biofuels?

Interesting piece over on Maribo about the way that flooding in the Midwestern US could lead to a big increase in the size of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico . This is caused each year when excess fertiliser is washed out of farmland along the Mississippi, flows into the gulf and feeds algae which...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-30-2008
What effects will the midwest floods have on corn?

Interesting piece on Maribo about the likely effects of the recent floods in the US on the corn crop and the trade off between fuel and feed.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-25-2008

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