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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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