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Food vs fuel the debate rumbles on

Its 2009 and some things don't change... the its your fault, no its your fault arguments over how much the biofuel industry is to blame for high food prices is one argument that is bringing some heat to this frigid January in London. The heat is coming from the US, and is only a little cooled by...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-06-2009
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
Restaurants set to raise prices as corn cost feed through to plates

A number of US restaurant chains look set to rise prices this year as higher corn prices ripple along the supply chain, according to Huffington post . The key paragraph is buried towards the end of the article.... Part of the problem stems from protein producers' plans to cut back on production in...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-14-2008
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
The Wall St Journal has a low opinion of the farm bill

The Wall St Journal has a pretty low opinion of the farm bill . Written like it is, it is hard to disagree with the opinion piece. Hat tip to the conservativerevolution blog .

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-15-2008
Is US biofuel policy about soaking tax payers and starving the world

Is US biofuel policy about soaking tax payers and starving the world? The Richmond Times Despatch thinks so in its InRich Blog. Barton Hinkle's piece makes the link between food aid, the ability of biofuel to lift the rural poor in developing nations out of subsistence farming and on the corruption...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-07-2008
farmers and ethanol firms blame oil for food costs

US farmers and ethanol firms blame oil for food costs , according to my pal Joe Kamalick on ICIS news. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) Looks to me that

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-01-2008
How much is ethanol costing the US

How much does ethanol cost the US, that's the question on a post from Say Anything. just to remind us the author spells it out like this... The other think that’s remarkable in this article is just how much the ethanol subisdy is costing us. When we fill up with a gallon of ethanol it’s costing the...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-30-2008
Fertilizer and biofuels

The New York Times has discovered that you need fertiliser to grow corn . The august organ has also discovered that not all the nitrogen fertiliser gets absorbed by the plants and that it can run off into rivers and cause dead zones where these discharge into the sea. Thanks to uncorrelated .

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-30-2008

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