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U.S. Ag Secretary Says Ethanol Holding Gas Prices in Check

by Jim Martin (Erie Times-News)  U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack knows gas prices are high. ...But Vilsack, a Pittsburgh native, said prices could be a lot worse. In an interview with the Erie Times-News, Vilsack said Tuesday that ethanol and other biofuels

March 14, 2012 Read Full Article

Hog Producers Can Compete with Ethanol for Corn

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)  An agricultural economist says hog producers are now able to compete with ethanol producers for corn. “This is an amazing difference from just five years ago,” said Purdue agricultural economist Dr. Chris Hurt. “The hog industry was

March 14, 2012 Read Full Article

Senegal: Researchers Help Draft Biofuel Law

by Theodore Kouadio  (AllAfrica.com)  Senegal's government has called on the expertise of the country's researchers in drafting a new national law to regulate the production and environmental impact of biofuels. The law was developed in collaboration with scientists from the country's

March 13, 2012 Read Full Article

Speculation Blamed for Global Food Price Weirdness

by Brandon Keim (Wired Science)  The link between commodity speculation and global food price weirdness just got stronger, and researchers warn that a new and potentially calamitous price bubble is imminent. Previous research had blamed a combination of food-to-fuel crop conversion

March 08, 2012 Read Full Article

NEC Food Vs Fuel Panel Includes Fact and Fabrication

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)  Ethanol has been scapegoated for just about every blip in food markets in recent years, but the question of whether that is fact or fabrication was taken on during the recent 17th annual National Ethanol Conference. In keeping

March 07, 2012 Read Full Article

Meeting Biofuel Production Targets Could Change Agricultural Landscape

(American Chemical Society)  Almost 80 percent of current farmland in the U.S. would have to be devoted to raising corn for ethanol production in order to meet current biofuel production targets with existing technology, a new study has found. An

March 01, 2012 Read Full Article

Why Algal Biofuels May Never Hold the Key to the Future

by Professor Chris Rhodes   (OilPrice.com)   The depletion of world rock phosphate reserves will restrict the amount of food that can be grown, a situation that can only be compounded by the production of biofuels, including the potential large-scale generation

February 22, 2012 Read Full Article

Senate Ag Committee Hearing Focuses on Farm Bill Energy Programs

by Kris Bevill  (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and a handful of bioenergy stakeholders were given the opportunity to present the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry with their opinions on the importance of the Farm Bill’s

February 16, 2012 Read Full Article

Farmers to Plant Most Acres Since 1984, Prompted by Higher Crop Prices

by Jeff Wilson and Whitney McFerron (The Washington Post)  ...Global food costs are down 11 percent from a peak a year ago as grain output rises from China to Canada, U.N. data show. ...The Agriculture Department affirmed its forecast for moderating food costs last month.

February 14, 2012 Read Full Article

Discarding the Confrontational View - The Biofuel and Food Industries Share a Number of Major Potential Synergies

(Neste Oil)  Neste Oil and Raisio have worked together for a number of years on how by-products and sidestreams generated by Finnish agriculture and food manufacturing can be used as inputs for producing biofuels. The two companies held a joint

February 13, 2012 Read Full Article

Ethanol Gives the Economy a Boost

by Ken Field (Financial Post)  Ethanol reduces the price of gasoline Ethanol’s chief benefit is environmental.  ...Last summer, there were no smog alerts in the GTA and 5.5 million Canadians breathed easier. Ethanol was a major factor in cleaning the air

February 08, 2012 Read Full Article

Canadian Renewable Fuels Association Says Report Wrong on Connection between Ethanol, Livestock

by Canadian Renewable Fuels Association (Ethanol Producer Magazine)   Ethanol and grain producers in Canada reacted to a report by the George Morris Centre charging it misinterprets the connection between clean-burning, renewable ethanol and the livestock and meat markets. A

February 06, 2012 Read Full Article

As EU Ramps Up Biofuels, Climate Debate Intensifies

By Alessandro Torello (Wall Street Journal)  ...But this plant, with a capacity of 800,000 metric tons a year, and others built by different companies around Europe face a new challenge: a possible shift in EU policy that could undermine their

February 06, 2012 Read Full Article

EU Biofuels Targets to Cost $166 Billion, Study Says

by Alex Morales (Reuters)  European Union policies to promote the use of biofuels for transportation will cost consumers as much as 126 billion euros ($166 billion) between now and 2020, two environmental groups said. The fuels, gasoline substitutes derived from plants,

February 06, 2012 Read Full Article

Canada Ethanol Policy Hurts Livestock Farmers: Report

by Rod Nickel (Reuters)  Ethanol production has boosted the prices of grains that Canadian farmers buy to raise cattle and pigs, and Ottawa should curb or eliminate its support for the industry, an agriculture research organization said on Tuesday. But a

February 01, 2012 Read Full Article

FAO Chief Biofuel Criticism ‘Misinformed,’ Industry Lobby Says

by  Rudy Ruitenberg (Bloomberg Business Week)  Criticism of biofuels and their impact on commodity prices by the new director general of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization is “simplistic and misinformed,” an industry lobby said. Higher energy prices are the “primary

January 25, 2012 Read Full Article

Texas Farmer Wades into 'Feed versus Fuel' Battle

(National Corn Growers Association)  Ongoing media coverage on corn usage tends to sensationalize trends by pitting demand from the ethanol industry against that from livestock, but Corn Board member Wesley Spurlock, a Texas farmer, has been speaking to groups across

January 24, 2012 Read Full Article

Researcher Sees DDGS as Potential Savior of U.S. Shrimp Industry

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  ...(Addison) Lawrence, a project leader and scientist in charge at Texas AgriLife Research Mariculture Laboratory at Port Aransas, Texas, explains that two things have hit the U.S. domestic shrimp industry hard. No. 1 is

January 23, 2012 Read Full Article

US a Cereal Offender on Ethanol, Says UN

by Rudy Ruitenberg (Sydney Morning Herald)  The US policy to produce ethanol biofuel from corn is raising prices for the grain across the world, said Jose Graziano da Silva, the new director-general of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation. ''FAO

January 23, 2012 Read Full Article

Germany Advised Not to Import Food for Biofuel

by Michael Hogan  (Reuters)    Govt advisors warn against biofuel feedstock imports * Importing foods for biofuels could endanger supplies * Biofuels industry says claims reckless Germany should not increase imports of food to produce biofuels, because this could threaten the supply of food in

January 23, 2012 Read Full Article

Texas Corn Grower Comments on Food vs. Fuel

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)  A Texas corn grower says the “feed versus fuel” debate is based in fallacy. Texas Corn Producers Board member Wesley Spurlock of Stratford has been speaking to groups across the Midwest explaining how U.S. corn farmers continue to

January 20, 2012 Read Full Article

Why Biofuels Are Not a Good Idea

by Mario Giampietro (Cassandra's Legacy)  ...(Y)ou may find a lot of help in the recent book "The Biofuel Delusion" by Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi. If you are unsure about why exactly biofuels are the disaster that they are, this book

January 17, 2012 Read Full Article

Feeders Explore Implications of Low-Fat Distillers Grains

by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  The cost to remove corn oil from distillers grains (DGs) is high, but even so, an increasing number of ethanol producers are expected to begin extracting the valuable product from DGs in the coming

January 12, 2012 Read Full Article

Gevo and Land O'Lakes Purina Feed Sign Off-Take and Marketing Agreement

(Market Watch/Gevo)   Plans Include Working with Land O'Lakes Purina Feed's Renowned Research Center to Explore Opportunities to Upgrade Value-Added Applications in Animal Feed Products Gevo, Inc., a renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, today (January 10, 2011) announced it had signed

January 12, 2012 Read Full Article

DDGs Use to Exceed Supply

(AllAboutFeed)  ...Despite initial concerns about the capacity of US or foreign livestock feeders to utilise DDGs, they are now the second largest category of processed feed used in the US, amounting to an estimated 29.1 million metric tonnes in 2010/11. The

January 09, 2012 Read Full Article

Report “The GBEP Sustainability Indicators for Bioenergy”

(Global Bioenergy Partnership)  In November 2011 the GBEP Steering Committee endorsed the report The Global Bioenergy Partnership Sustainability Indicators for Bioenergy. It was developed by GBEP Partners and Observers through the GBEP Task Force on Sustainability that had been working since

December 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel an Energy Resource Idea for Pakistan in Recent Energy Calamity

by Naseem Sheikh (Business Recorder)  ...A research Study conducted by the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, suggests that the country’s energy demand is expected to increase three fold by 2050, but supply position is not inspiring in anyway. In such alarming

November 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Environmental Outlook: Declining Political Support for Ethanol

host: Laura Knoy (NPR/The Diane Rhem Show)  America’s ethanol industry is booming. The U.S. is projected to become the world’s biggest ethanol exporter by the end of the year. In the past, Congress has strongly supported the industry. Now it

November 11, 2011 Read Full Article

China Completes First Biofuel Jet Test Flight

by John C.K. Daly (http://oilprice.com)   On 28 October Air China conducted its first trial flight of a passenger jet powered by a mix of biofuel and traditional aviation fuel. The Jet A-1 biofuel kerosene used in the flight was derived from

November 02, 2011 Read Full Article

America Needs More “Fiascos” Like Ethanol

by Matt Hartwig (Renewable Fuels Association)  ...All of ethanol’s critics share a common flaw when it comes to their claims – they cherry-pick the topics on which they opine and ignore very relevant facts.  The most recent example is this rant

October 31, 2011 Read Full Article

OriginOil Shows How Algae Can Reduce Biofuel Dependence on Food Crops

(OriginOil)  CEO’s presentation at Amsterdam’s Biofuels 2011 describes how blending algae with other feedstocks can ease shortages and help develop advanced biofuels OriginOil, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to extract oil from algae and an emerging leader in the global

October 31, 2011 Read Full Article

Price Volatility – Causes and Consequences

(Gant Daily)  ...G20 countries in their June 2011 ministerial declaration recommended measures such as building grain reserves, a global market information system and regulating financial transactions in commodities markets. But economists like Brian Wright, professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University

October 26, 2011 Read Full Article

A Next-Generation Biofuel Strategy

by Warren Mabee and Donald L. Smith   (The Star)  Global energy prices are on the rise, as are food prices and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Advanced biofuels can address all of these problems, and Canada, with its large biomass reserves and

October 26, 2011 Read Full Article

New Bioproducts Market to Outgrow Biofuels

by Deanna Lush  (Stock Journal)  ...As part of the study, former University of Guelph, Ontario, professor of crop science Terry Daynard compared grain supply and prices from the 1970s - where biofuel production was not an issue - and more

October 26, 2011 Read Full Article

Misinformation Abounds in Debate over Energy

by Jim Nussle (Growth Energy/Waterloo Courier)  op ed:  As the thousands of Iowans whose livelihoods depend on farming and renewable fuels know, an argument against ethanol is really an argument for America's status quo addiction to foreign oil. It is

October 12, 2011 Read Full Article

US Must Stop Promoting Biofuels to Tackle World Hunger, Says Thinktank

Suzanne Goldenberg   (The Guardian)  Global Hunger Index says US government support for corn ethanol was a factor in this year's food price spikes America must stop promoting the production of biofuels if there is to be any real progress in addressing spiking

October 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Denham: Ethanol Policy Closed Turlock Farm

(Modesto Bee)  Rep. Jeff Denham is citing the state's policies in the closure of Fulton Valley Farms of Turlock, set to happen by mid-January because of rising feed costs. The high cost of feed is a direct result of ethanol mandates

October 10, 2011 Read Full Article

A Conversation With Jonathan Wolfson, CEO of Solazyme

by Nicholas Jackson   (The Atlantic)   ...But if I am speaking to someone who really wants to know, then I proudly tell them that I am part of a team that is building the first 21st-century oil company, and

October 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Commodity Traitors: Financial Speculation on Commodities Fuels Global Insecurity

by Eric Michael Johnson  (Scientific American)   ...But new financial instruments have now been introduced that have taken food inequality to levels unheard of in the eighteenth century. As it turns out, there is a downside to playing with your food. Research

September 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol: One Market for a Growing Corn Supply

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  ...According to the USDA, corn farmers produced an average yield of 152.8 bushels of corn per acre in 2010, up 30 percent from the average 20 years ago. Most markets for corn, such as

September 29, 2011 Read Full Article

The Food Crises: A Quantitative Model of Food Prices Including Speculators and Ethanol Conversion

by Marco Lagi, Yavni Bar-Yam, Karla Z. Bertrand, Yaneer Bar-Yam  (Cornell University)   Recent increases in basic food prices are severely impacting vulnerable populations worldwide. Proposed causes such as shortages of grain due to adverse weather, increasing meat consumption in China and India,

September 26, 2011 Read Full Article

Fast Food Chains Place Order for No New Ethanol Subsidies

by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Anti-ethanol interests have launched their latest campaign focused on ensuring the demise of ethanol subsidies with a letter sent Sept. 15 to all members of Congress urging them not to pass any last-minute extensions

September 19, 2011 Read Full Article

House Hearing Ignores Critical Facts about America’s Ethanol Industry

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association)  America’s ethanol producers are on pace to produce nearly 40 million metric tons of livestock feed in 2011 – a volume greater than all the corn used on cattle feedlots all across the country. 

September 14, 2011 Read Full Article

From the Parliament: Opposition Warns against Rukwa Bio-Fuel Project

(The Daily News)  THE government has been warned against allocating over 320,000 hectares of prime land in Rukwa Region to an American agro-firm, Agrisol Energy, which is seeking to undertake large scale commercial farming for food, livestock, and jatropha for

September 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Remains a Sensible Alternative to Oil

by Stephanie Dreyer (Growth Energy/Baltimore Sun)  Letter to Editor:  Karen Hosler's recent opinion piece calling for an end to ethanol subsidies ("End the ethanol charade," Aug. 30) uses sweeping generalizations that distort the truth about grain ethanol's role in fostering

September 07, 2011 Read Full Article

EBRD Grants EUR 30 Million Loan to Romanian Oilseed Processing Company

(Business Review)  EBRD is granting a EUR 30 million syndicated financing package to Expur S.A., a local oilseed processing company. Expur crushes rapeseed and sunflower seed, produces crude rapeseed oil, refined edible sunflower oil, as well as rapeseed meal, sunflower

September 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Spurious Claims

by Ron Kotrba (Biorefining Magazine)  ...I told him I’m the editor of two monthly magazines centered on renewable fuels and chemicals. He sort of scoffed, and I knew we were going to get into “the discussion.” He led into our talk

August 24, 2011 Read Full Article

POTUS Puts Focus on Agriculture and Biofuels

by Cindy (Corn Commentary)  President Obama’s Midwest bus tour this week really put a spotlight on agriculture and biofuels. The POTUS visited three of the nation’s top four ethanol producing states,accounting for more than 42 percent of the country’s ethanol

August 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Plans for ‘Tree of Life’ Plantation

by Laea Medley (Independent Online)  ...The iLembe District Municipality and Dr Samson Tesfay, a post-doctoral student at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s discipline of horticultural science, are planning a plantation project for the plant. The project will harvest Moringa pods for

August 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Increase in Demand from India, China to Drive up Food Prices: Obama

(The Economic Times of India)  US President Barack Obama today highlighted the need to develop biofuels out of things that do not involve fuel chain, arguing that increase in demand from India and China would drive up the food prices. "As

August 18, 2011 Read Full Article

US Corn-Belt Farmers: 'The Country Has Turned on Us'

by Suzanne Goldenberg (The Guardian)  As Congress reviews 30 years of corn ethanol subsidies, the global food crisis has shone a negative light on biofuel production There were times when Arlyn Schipper could almost feel heroic on his family farm in

August 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Cargill Blames Government Hoarding for Global Food Price Surge

by John Lippert (The Washington Post/Bloomberg Markets)  Cargill chief Greg Page, who runs the largest U.S. agricultural company, has a good idea whom to blame for the global surge in food prices at the end of 2010: governments. ...He said government

August 15, 2011 Read Full Article

FREEDOM Has the Power and Energy to Change Your Mind and the World

by Patrick Robinson (West Seattle Herald)  The documentary FREEDOM from husband and wife team of Josh and Rebecca Tickell is aptly named because in the context of the film it represents the most significant meaning of the word and gives it

August 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Don’t Blame Ethanol for Rising Corn Prices

by John Block (Miami Herald)   ...Critics of renewable fuels keep claiming that the production of American ethanol threatens the food supply and raises food prices. Not true. There just isn’t any statistical evidence that increased ethanol production results in rising food

August 11, 2011 Read Full Article

More Ethanol, Fewer Inputs, Increasing Benefits: More Corn on Fewer Acres, Less Water

by Geoff Cooper (Renewable Fuels Association)  Over the past 30 years, and in particular in the past decade, ethanol production has quietly become increasingly efficient.  From improvements in corn production to greater efficiencies at ethanol biorefineries, America’s leading renewable fuel

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

A&M Study Finds RFS Not Lowering Cattle Profits

(Southeast Farm Press/National Corn Growers Association)  The study, which utilized Texas A&M University’s Agricultural & Food Policy Center’s premier farm-level modeling system and data from the University of Missouri’s Food & Agricultural Policy Research Institute, determined that net cash farm

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Missouri University Professor Helps to Plant Seeds for an Advanced Biofuel Economy

by Megan Cassidy  (Columbia Missourian)  Shibu Jose and his team believe that today’s soggy river bottoms could be untapped grounds for the largest advanced biofuel economy in the nation. Jose, director for MU’s Center for Agroforestry, is proposing to cultivate and harvest

August 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels: What Do the Experts Think?

by Matthew Knight (CNN)  It wasn't so long ago that biofuels were being heralded as the savior of the planet and a thoroughly green solution to our climate woes. But fair winds have been replaced by persistent storms of criticism.

July 29, 2011 Read Full Article

New Study Finds U.S. Ethanol Production Growth Has Not Triggered Indirect Land Use Change

(PR NewsWire/-- Prior studies failed to compare land use predictions to historical data A new study published in the July 2011 Biomass and Bioenergy Journal on indirect land use change (ILUC) due to biofuels production indicates that the real impact of U.S. biofuels

July 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Purdue Economists Report on Causes of High Commodity Prices

by Keith Robinson  (Purdue University)    Growing demand for corn to use in biofuels and for soybeans to help feed a booming Chinese economy are among key forces driving commodity prices higher this year, according to a report by three

July 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Analysis: Ethanol to Edge Pigs for Corn Use, but Not Quite Yet

by Charles Abbott and Karl Plume  (Reuters)  Ethanol appears almost certain to win the food-versus-fuel contest in the United States. But not just yet. The Agriculture Department forecast that a tad more corn will be used to make ethanol than to feed livestock

July 19, 2011 Read Full Article

New Race, New Fuel

by Chad Bishop  (Bowling Green Daily News) Cars using corn-based ethanol in Sparta’s inaugural Sprint Cup race A NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race has finally found itself in Kentucky. And when the lights go on tonight in Sparta, the sport will

July 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Food Security Not Necessarily Threatened By Biofuels

(Rainharvest)  To achieve “win-win outcomes” for bio-energy, food security and poverty reduction, we must recognise that these outcomes are possible. This is what Prof Lee Lynd, of Dartmouth College and the Mascoma Corporation, told delegates during a seminar at Stellenbosch University,

July 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Future of Food: Meet the Farmers and Scientists Who Could Save Our Fragile Global Food System

by Robin Barton (The Independent)  ...So I called my local farmer, David Bowtell. Sparing me the arcane details of the deal, he explained that growers of oilseed rape have received a cast-iron subsidy courtesy of the Common Agricultural Policy since

July 18, 2011 Read Full Article

At the Capitol: Alternative Energy Can Be Found Right Here in Illinois

by Rep. Jim Sacia  (Journal-Standard)  ...Ethanol is another source of alternative energy that has established a foothold in America, and we can be very proud of our own Adkins Energy ethanol plant in Lena. One of the strongest lobbying groups in

July 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Integral to Farm Network

by Bryan Christjansen   (Journal Gazette)  In “Ethanol’s subsidies drain on economy” (Opinion, July 3), Wayne Townsend claims that ethanol production in the United States and in Indiana has caused the price of corn to “skyrocket,” thus “jeopardizing the financial

July 12, 2011 Read Full Article

China's Hunger for Corn Turns Market on Ear

by Tom Polansek, Ian Berry and Scott Kilman   (Wall Street Journal)  Demand From Beijing Augurs Higher Food, Futures Prices A Chinese buying spree for U.S. corn is putting on display the ability of Beijing to reshape grain markets as well

July 12, 2011 Read Full Article

New Analysis Continues to Disprove Food v. Fuel Canard

(Renewable Fuels Association)  There is no statistical evidence to support the argument that growth in ethanol production is driving consumer food prices higher, according to a comprehensive study released today by Informa Economics. Rather, the report concludes that retail food prices

July 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Prices Have Dropped, Will Grocery Manufacturers Follow?

by Stephanie Dreyer (Growth Energy/Renewable Energy World)  After a report detailed that farmers have planted the largest number of corn acres in decades and with corn prices falling, one might expect grocery prices to drop. And one might even assume

July 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Letter to Editor: Is Ethanol a Solution, or a Problem?

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association/New York Times)   In “The Great Corn Con” (Op-Ed, June 25), Steven Rattner claims that United States ethanol production makes food costlier and scarcer, pollutes the environment and drains the treasury. That is not the

July 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Shifting Normal Supply, Demand Forces

by Steve Leer (Purdue University) • About 27 percent of the nation's corn crop must be devoted to ethanol this year to meet the federal mandate, leaving other corn users to compete for the remaining 73 percent. • The renewable fuels standard

July 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Nature Outlook Biofuels--Special Supplement

(Nature:  International Weekly Journal of Science)  Biofuels have big boots to fill. After more than 150 years of using petroleum and its products we have become dependent on it. First generation biofuels are showing us both the potential and the

July 02, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Not to Blame for High Food Prices, Study Says

by  Rob O'Flanagan   (Guelph Mercury)   Biofuels are not the villain behind recent spikes in food prices, a new study funded by Grain Farmers of Ontario concludes. Terry Daynard, a corn expert and retired University of Guelph crop science professor, presented the

July 02, 2011 Read Full Article

Despite Editorial, Ethanol's Not So Bad

by James Gough  (Fredericksburg Free Lance Star)  ...My primary concern with the editorial, however, is the certainty with which the writer declares, "we know now that ethanol production actually degrades the environment and causes increases in food prices. In fact,

June 30, 2011 Read Full Article

How Global Biofuel Expansion Could Affect the Economy, Environment and Food Supply

(World Bank)  National targets would contribute to rapid biofuel expansion in the next 10 years; Reaching those goals would have a limited impact on the global economy; Some countries would be affected significantly, with higher cost of food imports Expanding biofuel production to

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

BP Lauds Use of Biofuels

(UPI)  ...The International Energy Agency estimates the number of cars on the road will double by 2030. Philip New, president of biofuels development at BP, told delegates at a London conference that with better fuel efficiency and an increased use

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

FAO's New Leader Lays out His Plans

by Mark Tran  (The Guardian)  After narrow win in leadership contest, José Graziano da Silva pledges to reform the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, strive for consensus and tackle food price volatility ...He also stressed the need for a stable financial

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

ADM's Decatur Facility to Produce More Lysine, Threonine

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  A plan to produce more lysine and threonine, both amino acids, at Archer Daniels Midland Co.’s plant in Decatur, Ill., won’t mean changes on the ethanol side. “This expansion will not impact ethanol production

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

G20 Clinches First Farm Deal, Dodges Regulation

by Sybille de La Hamaide and Charlie Dunmore   (Reuters)  G20 farm ministers agreed to tackle high food prices on Thursday in a deal that steered clear of divisive details on issues such as regulation, paving the way to more global cooperation

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Instant View: G20 Farm Ministers Agree Deal on Food Prices

by Martin Roberts, Chuck Abbott, Sarah McFarlane, Charlie Dunmore, Jonathan Saul, Nigel Hunt  (Reuters)  G20 members settled a deal on Thursday to curb volatility in food prices, falling short of France's ambitious plans to impose tough new regulations on speculators, but agreeing to boost

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Land for Biofuels or Crops? The Debate Rumbles on

by Caroline Henshaw   (The Wall Street Journal)  Agriculture ministers for the world’s richest nations are meeting in Paris this week to debate the best ways to tackle unprecedented volatility in food prices. But while farming officials for the Group of

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

World's First Self-Powered Modular Cellulose Ethanol Refinery Announced

(PRNewswire)  New product will include cellulose feedstock grown in shipping containers along with the container based ethanol refinery Allard Research and Development, the world leader in small to medium-scale ethanol fuel production systems, announced today the world's first self-powered modular cellulose

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Role India Can Play to Ease Food, Fuel Crisis

by Nagesh Kumar  (Rediff Business)    ...Price volatility for food grain should be addressed through the counter-cyclical use of buffer stocks. For smaller economies that do not have the capacity to sustain large national food stocks, price shocks can be managed

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Five Ethanol Myths, Busted

by Forrest Jehlik (Argonne National Laboratory/Autopia)  ...We must develop a multitude of alternatives to address our future energy needs. One such alternative is ethanol, which is domestically generated and sustainable. However, there are many myths surrounding ethanol, and I’ve come

June 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Are Job Creators, Not Hunger Villian: U.S.

by Charles Abbott  (Reuters)  Biofuels are a "tremendous job creator" for rural areas, said U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday, ahead of a global meeting where the farm-grown fuels may be criticized as a factor in high food prices. ...Biofuels, especially ethanol

June 23, 2011 Read Full Article

US Official: Biofuels 'Scapegoat' for High Food Prices

by Steve Baragona   (Voice of America)   ...(Agriculture) Secretary (Tom)Vilsack told a luncheon gathering in Washington not to believe everything one hears about ethanol's role in today's high and volatile food prices. "The truth of the matter is that corn-based

June 15, 2011 Read Full Article

India’s New Food Security Law to Cover 70% of Its Population

by Joelle Brink (Biofuels Digest Asia) In India, the fact that good government is the best solution to food vs fuel competition was demonstrated this week when country’s famously tight policy on biofuels production was matched by a new food

June 09, 2011 Read Full Article

The True Story Behind Food Versus Fuel Debate

by Ron Miller (Biofuels Digest/Prisma Advisors)  “Hunger, despair for millions” reads the headline in a national newspaper looking to link high food prices with the growth of renewable fuels. Anti-ethanol factions oftentimes cite food costs in the ongoing food versus fuel

June 07, 2011 Read Full Article

National Farmers Union Rejects Biofuel Criticism

(National Farmers Union)  Biofuels can help to create a strong and sustainable agricultural sector in Europe, NFU policy director Martin Haworth stressed this week. Speaking at an international food security conference in Brussels this week Mr Haworth criticised campaign groups for painting

June 02, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Boom in Africa as British Firms Lead Rush on Land for Plantations

by Damian Carrington and Stefano Valentino (The Guardian)  British firms have acquired more land in Africa for controversial biofuel plantations than companies from any other country, a Guardian investigation has revealed. Half of the 3.2m hectares (ha) of biofuel land identified –

June 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Vilsack: Food Price Hike More than Ethanol

by Jerry Hagstrom  (AgWeek)  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told a gathering of international agricultural development activists recently that U.S. biofuels should not blamed for most of the increases in food prices in recent years. “With respect to food prices, corn-based

May 31, 2011 Read Full Article

Counterpoint: Gas Prices Would Double without Ethanol

by Ken Field (Financial Post)  The myths that smear a superior fuel ...A recent study released by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) states that adding ethanol reduced wholesale gasoline prices by an average of US89¢ per gallon (US24¢/litre)

May 31, 2011 Read Full Article

FAO and GBEP: Biofuels an Opportunity—Not a Threat—for Developing Nations

by Geoff Cooper (Renewable Fuels Association)  ...Luddites and Malthusians have suggested that crop-based biofuels simply can’t provide significant volumes of energy for transportation without starving the world’s poor. ...Of course, these ridiculous charges have been disproven time and time again, and the world’s

May 26, 2011 Read Full Article

Big Food Shifting the Blame Higher Grocery Costs

by Chris Thorne (Growth Energy/NewsOK) letter to editor:  Regarding “Corn ethanol is burning up food budgets” (Point of View, May 13): J. Patrick Boyle, president and CEO of the American Meat Institute, misled readers about the real reason behind rising grocery

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Setting the Record Straight: Ethanol is Best Solution

by Mark Borer (Mansfield News Journal) Letter to Editor:  ...Importantly, all of corn's high-value components, protein and fat, are returned to the feed supply. Ethanol production only converts the low-value component of corn, starch, into ethanol. Koschnick's claim that ethanol is

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Brazil´s Biofuel Drama Goes Global

by Eric Ehrmann (Huffington Post) Speculators hedging uncertainty in world energy markets are again making renewable fuels derived from corn, cane sugar and soybeans the drivers of food price inflation, just as they did on the eve of the 2008 economic

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Should Government Keep Financially Supporting Ethanol? (The Debate 5/23-5/27)

(Minnesota Public Radio News)  The Assertion: The state and federal government should continue subsidizing ethanol Ethanol's promise as America's path to energy self-sufficiency once seemed strong. But in recent years, that attraction has been tempered. Even supporters of ethanol, such as

May 23, 2011 Read Full Article

India Could Replace Gasoline Imports With Ethanol by 2020, Study Shows

By Natalie Obiko Pearson   (Bloomberg)   ...India can potentially harvest enough bagasse, rice husk and sugar waste to produce as much as 50 billion liters (13 billion gallons) of ethanol without relying on food crops or disrupting agricultural land-use, according

May 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Vantage Point: Views on Food, Fuel and Land Use May 24, 2011 Webinar

It wasn’t long ago that the World Bank debunked the report that claimed biofuels cause food prices to increase.  Still, the issue is resurfacing, as can be seen in a flury of recent news reports.  Food prices are climbing, but experts agree

May 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Why It’s Wrong to Agree with the Malthusians about Ethanol

by Robert Zubrin   (Pajamas Media)  Rising food prices are the result of rising oil prices, not a growing market for ethanol. ...There is not a fixed amount of grain in the world. Farmers produce in response to demand. The more customers,

May 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Beyond Food vs. Fuel: FAO Finds Integrated Food and Energy Farming Could Save the Poor and the Planet

by Joelle Brink (Biofuels Digest Asia)  Before the advent of cheap petroleum, farmers often had their own “fuel patch” of local oilseed crops that served as feedstock for the biodiesel needed to power pumps, generator sets, tractors and other farm

May 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Campaign against Biofuels Stops at DfT Office

(Green Car Website)  Anti-poverty charity ActionAid has launched a new anti-biofuels campaign targeting Transport Secretary Philip Hammond by using adverts on buses which stop outside his office. The adverts urge Mr Hammond to consider the impacts that biofuels are having in developing countries

May 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Food v. Fuel Revisited

by Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer  (Daily Yonder)  ...As we listen to this debate, the implied assumption is that the sole purpose of farming is to provide food and certainly that has been true for over half a

May 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Talking Turkey on Ethanol, Distillers Grains

by Matt Hartwig (Renewable Fuels Association)  ...Here are few of the more questionable claims made to an OPIS reporter by lobbyists for NTF (National Turkey Federation): NTF CLAIM: “You cannot compare feed that comes directly from corn and distiller grains.” NTF CLAIM:

May 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Food vs. Fuel: The Environment and Bio-Fuels

(Grain Farmers of Ontario)  Canadian biofuel is better for the environment than biofuel produced further south- in part due to our different agricultural practices - according to a new study released by the Grain Farmers ofOntario. The report, produced by Dr.

May 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Algae—Food or Chemical Grade?

by Riggs Eckelberry  (Algae Industry Magazine)  There’s a big question planners should be asking themselves when they put together an algae production plan: are we trying to meet food-grade requirements for our algae? That critical question drives the overall shape

May 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Letter to Editor: Ethanol Isn't Perfect; Neither is Gasoline

by Lynwood Broaddus  (Free Lance Star/Fredericksburg.com)  ...The editorial begins, "Ethanol production boosts food prices, steals feed corn for fuel. " One bushel of corn can produce 2.5 gallons of fuel ethanol, 12.4 pounds of 21 percent (protein) feed, 3 pounds of

May 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Move Over, Soylent Green — Algae Will Soon Be in Everything

by Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company/EIN News)  Remember a few years ago when everyone decided that using algae as a biofuel feedstock would be the best thing ever? Well, progress on that front is moving so slowly that companies have realized that

May 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Open Trade Is Mechanism for Balancing Biofuels Supply and Demand

(GLG Research)   ...Trade is the mechanism that has a better chance of triggering innovation and technological advancement that create markets and improvement in productivity that ultimately leads to lower costs. Subsidies and trade tariff protection only continues to pamper inefficient

May 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Mary Kissel: It's Harder to Bring Home the Bacon

by Mary Kissel (Orange County Register)  ...Mr. Pope is the chief executive officer of Smithfield Foods Inc., the world's largest pork processor and hog producer by volume. He doesn't mince words when it comes to rapidly rising food prices. The

May 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Next-Generation Biofuels Panel Discussion

(Milken Institute Global Conference)  With oil prices spiking and concern over climate change growing, biofuels hold tremendous appeal. But they must overcome considerable hurdles. Further process and technology refinements are needed to ensure that biofuels make a significant dent in

May 04, 2011 Read Full Article

GasHole: Dirty Oil and the Biofuel Myth

by Allison Kilkenny (Huffington Post)  This week marked the world premiere of GasHole, a new documentary film (narrated by Peter Gallagher) about the history of oil prices and the future of alternative fuels. Biofuel gossip has been everywhere in the news

May 02, 2011 Read Full Article

China Set to Increase Use of Biofuels

by Wang Xiaotian   (China Daily) The nation has plans to reduce CO2 emissions by up to 45 percent by 2020 China can become a leader in the production of second-generation (2G) biofuels, made from agricultural waste instead of foodstuffs, such

May 02, 2011 Read Full Article

MHI Establishes Technology to Produce Biofuel Locally at Low Cost from Rice and Barley Straws

(JapanCorp.net)  Project to Make Efficient Use of Soft Cellulose Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has successfully established technology to produce ethanol for automobile fuel, satisfying the standards of the Japanese Automotive Standards Organization (JASO), from lignocellulose (soft cellulose) such as rice

April 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Vilsack Rejects Correlation of Food Prices and Ethanol

by David Bennett (Western Farm Press)  As food prices rise, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is not fond of claims that ethanol production is a major cause. He also says an uptick in grain prices will not have a big impact

April 28, 2011 Read Full Article

IEA Releases Technology Roadmap Biofuels for Transport

(Industrial Fuels and Power)  A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) says that the widespread deployment of biofuels can play an important role in reducing CO2 emissions in the transport sector and enhancing energy security, when produced sustainably. With

April 28, 2011 Read Full Article

The Impact of Ethanol and Ethanol Subsidies on Corn Prices: Revisiting History

by Bruce A. Babcock, Jacinto F. Fabiosa (Iowa State University)  The rapid rise in corn prices that began in the fall of 2006 coincided with exponential growth in U.S. corn ethanol production. At about the same time, new ethanol consumption

April 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Local View: Filling in the Blanks on Ethanol

by Kelly Brunkhorst  (Journal Star /Nebraska Corn Board)  J. Patrick Boyle's column, "Corn ethanol: Burning up food budgets," (LJS, April 21) may make a couple of valid points, but he omits many facts that need to be part of the discussion

April 28, 2011 Read Full Article

World Bank Wary of Biofuel Rule Impact

by Sam Fleming (The Telegraph)  The World Bank has called for the relaxation of laws requiring crops to be blended into petrol, saying that they are contributing to the global food price crisis. Robert Zoellick, the president of the Bank, said

April 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Vilsack Testifies on Biofuels

by Andy Eubank (USDA/Hoosier Ag Today)  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently testified before a Senate committee on the effect and influence of biofuels. Testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Vilsack responded to comments and questions about ethanol’s

April 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Global Renewable Fuels Alliance to UN FAO: Oil Prices Are Driving Up the Cost of Food

(Global Renewable Fuels Alliance)  As the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO) gathers in Rome for a council meeting on food security issues, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) has called on delegates to focus on the real driver

April 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Aurora Algae A2 Product Portfolio Equals Sustainable Nutrition, Energy and Aquaculture

(Aurora Algae)  Company Announces Availability of A2 Omega-3, Fuel, Protein and Feed Products for Customer Evaluation Aurora Algae today introduced the A2 product portfolio, a series of natural products derived from its proprietary algae platform. The A2 product portfolio is uniquely

April 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol: Pros, Cons Fuel Debate over Its Worth

by Tyler Ellyson  (Columbus Telegram)   Robeson, general manager of Frontier Co-op in Brainard, considers the corn-based fuel to be the crutch that the Midwest and Nebraska economies leaned on during the recent recession — keeping our heads above water while

April 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Experts: Farmers not to Blame for High Food Prices

by Michael J. Crumb  (Associated Press/Forbes)  ...Now, they're concerned again as corn prices rose even higher last week following an announcement that U.S. farmers are planting the second largest corn crop since 1944, but it won't be enough to meet

April 04, 2011 Read Full Article

More Psuedo-Science and the Preposterous Claims of Anti-Ethanol Activists

by Geoff Cooper (Renewable Fuels Association)  A new pseudo-analysis published by the controversial and discredited Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons claims that biofuels expansion is increasing hunger and poverty-related health risks in developing nations. The four-page article was written by

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Food and Fuel Debate Important to All Ethanol

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association/Biofuels Digest)   ...This faux debate is as important to future ethanol producers as it is to existing ethanol producers. And those looking to capitalize on starch-based ethanol’s public relations struggles need to be cognizant

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Rising Food Prices? Can't Blame Ethanol

by John Block (Chicago Tribune)  With food prices rising worldwide, some self-styled authorities on agriculture are claiming that producing ethanol in the Midwest causes food riots in the Middle East. Their story is simple: Biofuels are gobbling up the grains that

March 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Soybean Growers Seeing Positive Results from Biodiesel

(Southeast Farm Press/United Soybean Board)  An updated, independent study funded by the United Soybean Board (USB) and soybean checkoff shows production of biodiesel continues to positively impact U.S. soybean farmers’ on-farm profitability, as well as the bottom lines of U.S.

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Policy Causing Starvation: Nestle Boss

by Stephen Foley (New Zealand Herald)  Soaring food inflation is the result of "immoral" policies in the United States which divert crops for use in the production of biofuels instead of food, according to the chairman of one of the

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

How to Avoid a Global Food Price Crisis

by Tom Vilsack (Financial Times/US Department of Agriculture)  Recent news stories have stoked fears about rising global food prices. But today, only a few years after a devastating food crisis, we can avoid the mistakes of 2007 and 2008 and respond

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

An Interview with General Wesley Clark

(Novozymes)  General Wesley Clark: retired US Army general, 2004 Democratic Party presidential candidate, and now Co-Chairman of Growth Energy, an ethanol lobbying group. A lot of people, when they think of biofuels – ethanol – have a picture of good grain

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels at the Crossroads

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Good news: Advances in processing technology In the past year, we’ve seen costs coming down across the line. Last spring, new cellulosic ethanol enzyme collections appeared from the likes of Novozymes and Genencor, with the

March 21, 2011 Read Full Article

Who Gets Your Food Dollar?

by Matt Hartwig (Renewable Fuels Association)  ...As a result, many in the industrial meat sector, along with junk food processers and other food manufacturers are once again seeking to blame ethanol for the spike in corn prices and the subsequent

March 18, 2011 Read Full Article

A Flock of Speculation: How Paper Bushels, Not Ethanol, Are Driving Corn Prices

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association)  ...If you needed any more proof that large speculative investors are toying with the agricultural commodities markets and causing wild volatility, you need look no further than the erratic behavior of the corn market

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Letter to Editor: Ethanol Helps Stabilize Energy Prices

by Matt Hartwig (Renewable Fuels Association/Baltimore Sun)  The Sun may have cut back its foreign bureaus, but your editorial writers ("End subsidies for corn-based ethanol," March 14) must still be aware of the turmoil in North Africa and the Middle

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Cheap Food, Elevated Oil Prices Don't Mix

By Kevin Hursh (Postmedia News/Montreal Gazette) ...The ethanol industry, particularly in the U.S., is a prime target of those who worry about food prices. About 37 per cent of the American corn crop goes to making ethanol. Cancelling the ethanol incentives

March 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Maize Farmers Lobby to Supply Biofuel Industry

by Stephanie Nieuwoudt  (Interpress Service News Agency)  South African maize farmers are pushing hard to change a government decision to exclude their crops as feedstock for bioethanol, in view of food security concerns. Shortly after the government unveiled its biofuel strategy last

March 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Big Meat and Its Big Lie

By Stephanie Dreyer (Growth Energy/RenewableEnergyWorld.com)  Smithfield, the world's largest producer and processor of pork, reported record profits this quarter as the global economy continues to recover and exports rise. ...Despite these record earnings, just yesterday the American Meat Institute supported legislation introduced from Senators

March 12, 2011 Read Full Article

New Economic Study Affirms that Livestock Producers Benefit from Biodiesel

(National Biodiesel Board)  Thanks to biodiesel, soybean oil and meal economics favor the livestock industry concludes a study released today. In addition without America’s advanced biofuel in the marketplace higher soybean meal prices could have cost the livestock industry $4.8 billion

March 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Vilsack: US Farms Producing Enough for Food & Biofuels

by John Davis (DomesticFuel.com)  ...“It is irritating to me that we have to read about this all the time, because what it is basically is saying is that the folks advancing this argument either do not understand or do not

March 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Letter to Editor: Ethanol's Undeserved Bad Rap

by Mike Doherty (Illinois Farm Bureau/Chicago Tribune)  I read your editorial "Burning Dinner" and question your implication that farmers are diverting corn toward fuel production that otherwise would be used to feed a hungry world. First of all, the public should

March 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Boom Could Follow Oil Price Spike

by Damian Carrington (The Guardian)  When biofuels match oil on price, production could boom in the developing countries that also have the greatest need to boost food supply The production of biofuels, good thing or not, will be decided by the setting

March 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Demand Topped off for Ethanol

by Leslie Brooks Suzukamo (Pioneer Press/TwinCities.com)  2010 saw record production for evolving industry. U.S. ethanol production pretty much hit a ceiling last year at 13.23 billion gallons, or about 10 percent of all gasoline production, according to an industry report Monday. To

March 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Clinton Warns of Biofuel Impact on Poor

by Philip Brasher (Des Moines Register)  Former President Bill Clinton sounded a warning today on the impact that biofuels can have on global food prices and political stability. “We have to become energy independent but we don’t want to do

February 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Lowers Food Costs

by Orrie Swayze (Ag Week)  America’s corn crop is a miracle crop that, on a sustainable, per-acre basis, grows three times as much grain and creates three times as much soil organic matter by capturing three times as much carbon as

February 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol is 'Good, Good, Good,' Grassley Says

by Courtney Blanchard   (Telegraph Herald)  Senator rejects new criticism of U.S. ethanol policy that comes after reports of low corn reserves. Near record-high corn prices and the lowest reserves in 15 years have reinvigorated the debate over ethanol. U.S. Sen. Chuck

February 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Crops to Fall within Assurance Chain

by Julian Gairdner (Farmers Weekly Interactive)  Grain destined for the biofuel chain looks set to fall within farm assurance following negotiations between Assured Food Standards, the NFU and the European Commission. Ensuring there was a single assurance programme was a key objective of

February 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Blame it on Biofuels: The Same Old Food vs Fuel Argument Is Back Again and Just as Irrelevant as Last Time

by Joelle Brink (Biofuels Digest Asia)  ...(M)ost of the food vs fuel stories archived on the web were dated either 2008 or 2011, and that many seemed remarkably similar. That’s when it dawned on me that very few people want

February 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Government Hands May Be Tied on Ethanol: USDA Official

by Ayesha Rascoe  (Reuters)  ..."The fact is the industry has pretty much been built," USDA Chief Economist Joe Glauber told reporters on the sidelines of a Commodity Markets Council conference. "This isn't a question of just saying 'cut it off.'

February 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Malthusiasm Returns: Is It “Food vs Fuel”, or “Progress vs Same as It Ever Was”

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...The dialogue over the opportunities for biofuels continues to veer, as ever, away from the technology itself, or any emission-reducing or security-enhancing attributes of the fuel – and comes down to two questions. Can biofuels

February 21, 2011 Read Full Article
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