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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
Ethanol wants to cosy up to Detroit

Large sections of the US ethanol business have been writing to the US car makers asking them to support higher volume blends of ethanol in future and tying that message to an innovate or die warning... It could be a good idea...there does need to be more buy in from automakers to help ethanol/butanol...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-27-2008
There's a plan!

The US National Biodiesel Research and Development Board has plan for Biofuels . Published two days ago...it will be interesting to see if it changes much after January.... in the light of Obama's victory in the polls last night .

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008
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
National Alternative Fuel Vehicle day on 30 September

National Alternative Fuel Vehicle day on 30 September was one of the first of a range of events across the US in the coming months. I missed this at the time, travelling may broaden the mind, but you can't do much at all when you're laptop's battery is on the blink.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-02-2008
EPA to rule on Texas' exit from biofuel mandate on 24 July

A piece on B loombergg today goes into some detail behind Texas' Governors' plan to try and get out of the national requirement to make 9bn gallons of ethanol . The story says that there will have to be a decision by Friday. You may remember, I mentioned Texas' cattle ranchers plans in early...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-22-2008
Louisana signs advanced biofuels law into being

Lousiana has signed the HB1270 Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative into law. It features the use of hydrous and anhydrous ethanol as a fuel blend stock that will be derived from plants grown in Lousiana (but not corn) and capable of producing 600gal/acre, with only one-third nitrogen input...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-15-2008
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

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