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Verasun tries to exit corn purchase contracts

Verasun which has filed for bankruptcy protection has asked the courts to terminate a number of its corn contracts, says ICIS news. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS. About ICIS) While the move would help Verasun get back on its feet, if the court agrees, it's going to be painful for farmers.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-26-2008
EPA may investigage corn ethanol's environmental credentials

The US Environmental Protection Agency, may start investigating the environmental benefits of corn ethanol processes, according to a post on Chemically Green , which quotes a letter from Friends of the Earth and others to the EPA. The thrust of the letter is that the EPA should consider all of the effects...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-11-2008
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
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 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
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
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
Why is Obama pro corn ethanol and McCain anti?

Those of you who have been following the biofuel positions of the two candidates McCain and Obama in the forthcoming US presidential elections may have wondered why the two men have taken the positions that they have. Ron Way examines the strange politics king makers in corn ethanol country in MinnPost...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008
Ethanol is great, (but not to popular technology)

Ethanol is great if you're standing for election in the US this year, says Popular Technology and then starts a balanced video about that . The nugget in the middle of this video is from the University of Minnesota: If the US converted all of its corn into ethanol for fuel it would equivalent to...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008

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