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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

UK Wheat Crop Can Expand to Meet Food and Fuel Demand

by Nigel Hunt (Reuters)  * UK wheat yields seen having potential to rise * EU biofuel expansion seen mainly based on bioethanol * Higher percentage of equity used in financing project Britain can grow enough wheat to supply the needs of food, feed

February 21, 2011 Read Full Article

25x'25 Offers New Food-versus-Fuel Information FAQ

(25 x '25)  Last week, USDA reported that surplus corn stocks have hit their lowest point since 1995 and corn prices have risen from $3.50 per bushel in July 2010, to $6.10 in January 2011. Critics of biofuels charge that

February 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Off into the Wild, Green Yonder

(The Economist)  SPOOKED by the spike in oil prices in 2008 and warily eyeing the latest spurt in fuel charges, airlines have noted that the costs of not going green are growing. In particular, they fret about the painful levies on

February 17, 2011 Read Full Article

How Biofuels Contribute to the Food Crisis

by Tim Searchinger (op ed The Washington Post)  ...Agricultural production is keeping up in general with the growing demand for food - but it keeps up with the added demand for biofuels only if growing weather is good. ...Higher fuel

February 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Crops Will Not Increase Food Prices, Shortages

by Samihah Zaman  (Gulfnews)   More production aids development There is currently no need to worry that increasing biofuel crops for transport purposes will create food shortages and food price rises in the world, a panel in the capital heard yesterday. Instead,

February 04, 2011 Read Full Article

There Is No Food-Ethanol Trade-Off

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association/Wall Street Journal)  letter to editor      Regarding your editorial "Amber Waves of Ethanol" (Jan. 22): Ethanol production today is as much about feed as it is about fuel. One out of every three bushels of corn entering

February 01, 2011 Read Full Article

The Corn Ethanol War: Wall Street Journal, Gingrich Get out the Slingblades

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In New York, the Wall Street Journal launched a bitter counterattack this week on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, after Gingrich remarked, at a meeting of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association that “Obviously big urban

February 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Can We Innovate Our Way Out of the Challenges that Confront Us?

by Joelle Brink  (Biofuels Digest-Asia)  As New Year celebrations get under way throughout Asia, the year in biofuels is shaping up to be one of uncertainty.  Already, notable advances in sustainable palm oil supply, cellulosic ethanol production, and biofuels from

January 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Feeding Glycerin to Swine Can Be Done

(Prairie Farmer)  Researchers recommend feeding glycerin up to 15%. Glycerin did not have an effect on meat quality. An increased interest in biofuel production and a growing need to find cost-effective livestock feedstuff alternatives has led University of Illinois researchers to

January 26, 2011 Read Full Article

High Quality of U.S. Corn to Yield More Ethanol: Executive

by Charles Abbott  (Reuters)  The higher quality of the U.S. corn crop could yield more ethanol per bushel and divert less of the crop to biofuels, which could raise tight ending stocks by 20 percent, said a biofuels executive on

January 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Corn Profitable for Farmers, Less So for Ethanol

by Dan Piller (Des Moines Register)  The surge in corn prices since mid-2010 has bolstered the profits of corn farmers but has eaten away at the profitability of ethanol producers. ...Ethanol producers meanwhile saw a dramatic drop in their margins from

January 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Nebraska's 'Golden Triangle' Attracts Cattle

(Nebraska Farmer)  The Nebraska Department of Agriculture and the Nebraska Corn Board have jointlyreleased a video that shows the opportunities available for feeding cattle in Nebraska. ..."We have talked about Nebraska's Golden Triangle of corn, livestock and ethanol. As the third

January 24, 2011 Read Full Article

ADM Gives US$10 Million to Found Institute to Reduce Global Postharvest Loss of Grains, Oilseeds

(BusinessWire/ADM)  University of Illinois research center will work to preserve more of what’s grown worldwide Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) today founded the ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss with a US$10 million grant to the University of

January 21, 2011 Read Full Article

What Matters in Biofuels?

by Vinod Khosla (GreenTechMedia)  Given the likely continued dominance of the internal combustion engine, cellulosic and sugar-derived fuels offer one of the lowest risk advances to quickly and affordably achieve low-carbon transportation. Furthermore, substituting higher value bio-chemicals for petro-chemicals, will

January 20, 2011 Read Full Article

As Gas Prices Rise, State Looks at Fuel Alternatives

by Robyn L. Minor (Bowling Green Daily News)  Officials studying logistical challenges facing biofuel progress With gas prices in December seeing the biggest jump in 18 months, consideration of alternative fuel development moves to the forefront. “Gas price certainly reinvigorates the conversation,”

January 18, 2011 Read Full Article

How Agricultural Biotechnology Boosts Food Supply and Accomodates Biofuels

by Steven Sexton, David Zilberman   (National Bureau of Economic Research)  Increased global demand for biofuels is placing increased pressure on agricultural systems at a time when traditional sources of yield improvements have been mostly exhausted, generating concerns about the future of

January 18, 2011 Read Full Article

The Hidden Cost of Oil at the Grocery Store Checkout Counter

by Stephanie Dreyer (Renewable Energy World/Growth Energy)  ...The cost of crude is a major inflator of grocery prices, because transportation, manufacturing and packaging cost more as oil prices go up. In 2009, when diesel was $2.67 a gallon, the cost

January 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Global Renewable Fuels Alliance: Biofuels Can Ease the Impact of Hazardous Oil Prices

(Global Renewable Fuels Alliance)  This week the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued a wakeup call to the world that high oil prices pose a threat to the stability of an already fragile recovering global economy. The IEA went on to

January 10, 2011 Read Full Article

The Big Price Build-Up: Are You Ready?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  The US economy is just now showing signs of revival, and already we are seeing signs of runaway oil and grain prices that may bring unwanted inflation and dangerous instability hardly before the recovery has

January 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Not Sustainable as Fuels for Automobiles in India: Ramesh

(India Transport Portal)  While biofuels are being considered as the alternative fuel for the vehicles in number of countries, they are not the sustainable option as the fuel for automobiles in India, said Jairam Ramesh, Environment Minister of Indian Union

January 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels: A Market of Political Opportunities

by Robert Vierhout (ePURE/Ethanol Producer Magazine)  In Europe, much more than in the United States, green (but not just) non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are engaged loudly and aggressively in the biofuel debate. For several years now, a number of NGOs have

January 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Disarming the Food to Fuel Conflict Part 2: The Misinformation Campaign

by Christopher Klug (Tiny Green Bubble)  ...According to the Renewable Fuels Association data, the United States produced and used approximately 10.6 billion gallons of ethanol in 2009, making the US the largest producer of ethanol in the world. (Renewable Fuels

January 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Disarming the Food to Fuel Conflict Part 1: The Biofuel History

by Christopher Klug (Tiny Green Bubble)  In the United States, domestic ethanol production and motor fuel additives are becoming more and more common. However, a bevy of misinformation campaigns surround the use of resources for these clean energy initiatives. These

January 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Strong Ethanol Industry an Important Step

by Bill Jones (San Francisco Chronicle)  ...Separating fact from fiction in the ethanol debate is not easy. "Food versus fuel" is a nice catch phrase, but worldwide, biofuel production accounts for less than 1 percent of total agricultural acreage. Corn ethanol

December 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Fuel Vs. Food: Ethanol Helps Boost Meat Prices

by Kathleen Masterson   (NPR / WOI / Harvest Public Media)   ...And according to USDA data, meat now costs as much as 12 percent more than last year.  ...But let's get out of the kitchen for a minute — this is

December 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Do Biofuels Compete with Food?

by Matt Cunningham (How Stuff Works)  ...The myriad of factors that go into the food-versus-biofuel equation are complex and vary from situation to situation. While one region's farming infrastructure, climate and fuel use may make it an ideal place to

December 22, 2010 Read Full Article

BP Biofuels CEO Presents Sugar-Based Vision

by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Growing biofuels mandates will require 220 “world-scale” cellulosic biofuels plants to be operational in the U.S. by 2020, according to Phil New, CEO of BP Biofuels. The head of the oil giant’s biofuels division

December 06, 2010 Read Full Article

The Thin Line Between Academics and Advocacy

by Matt Hartwig (Renewable Fuels Association)  Earlier this week, Iowa State University Professor Bruce Babcock released a policy brief entitled “Impact of Ethanol, Corn, and Livestock from Imminent U.S. Policy Decisions.”  Much of this analysis is predicated on anticipated fears

November 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Bogus Logic in E15 Suits

by Mike Bryan (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  In a thinly veiled attempt to further line their pockets, the meat and poultry industry, and the grocery and convenience store associations, are once again trying to stop the advance of ethanol use in

November 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Letters: Stoking the Ethanol Debate

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association/Houston Chronicle)  Letter to Editor   ...The Chronicle says natural gas from shale deserves federal subsidies for production, but says ethanol doesn't because it requires too much water to produce. The water needs of fracking and

November 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Ethanol Production Nears A Million Barrels Per Day

(New Energy and Fuel)  ...The U.S. is closing in on the million barrel per day milestone.  Cheers in some sections, groans in others, but for America, slashing off the equivalent of 750,000 b/d of imported oil is a good thing. Most

November 21, 2010 Read Full Article

You Can Have Your Opinion, but Not Your Own Facts

by Matt Hartwig (Renewable Fuels Association)  That the Houston Chronicle would be anti-ethanol is not surprising to anyone.  It is Houston, Texas, after all.  But that the editorial board would play fast and loose with the “facts” they use to support

November 11, 2010 Read Full Article

Inclusion of Maize in Biofuels Strategy Condemned

(The Bioenergy Site)  The African Center for Biosafety (ACB) has issued a statement to express concerns over the possibility of the inclusion of maize in a revision of South Africa’s biofuels policy. ACB was prompted into action by an announcement made by

November 01, 2010 Read Full Article

What Food v. Fuel Debate?

by Stephanie Dreyer (Renewable Energy World/Growth Energy)  ...You have one nutritionist with Tyson Foods speaking about the great value of DDGs (Dried Distillers Grains) as a feed for livestock. And then another expert takes it a step further, saying that

October 27, 2010 Read Full Article

PSA Peugeot Citroën and FNSEA to Develop Biofuels

(The Engineer)  PSA Peugeot Citroën and the Fédération Nationale des Syndicats d’Exploitants Agricoles (FNSEA), France’s largest farmers’ union, are in discussions to jointly develop biofuels. ...FNSEA confirmed that French and other European agricultural resources are sufficient to deploy biofuel solutions without disrupting

October 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels Done Right: Land Efficient Animal Feeds Enable Large Environmental and Energy Benefits

by Bruce E. Dale, Bryan D. Bals, Seungdo Kim and Pragnya Eranki (Biomass Conversion Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, and Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University)    There is an intense ongoing debate regarding the

October 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels Only Partly to Blame for High Food Prices

(Reuters)  * Biofuel demand, tight supplies supporting corn prices  * Corn rising to 2008 levels rekindles food vs fuel debate ...But this month's corn market rally to highs near $6 per bushel was driven more by the U.S. Agriculture Department's lower corn

October 20, 2010 Read Full Article

Global Consultations on Cassava as Bio-Fuel Open

(Ghana News Agency)  Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture, on Monday noted that the commercial cultivation of cassava as an alternative source of bio-energy, would not compromise Ghana’s agricultural lands or threaten its food security. ...Mr Ahwoi, who was

October 20, 2010 Read Full Article

Brazilian Scientists Turning Nation into an Agro-Power

By Juan Forero (The Washington Post)  ...Once seen as a wasteland, the Cerrado is now the motor of an agro-industry so potent that Brazil threatens to surpass the United States as breadbasket to the world. The answer to how that

October 19, 2010 Read Full Article

The Massive Potential of U.S. Biofuels

by Al Fin (OilPrice.com)  ...Up until now, most people analysing US biofuels potential have failed to look at a realistic and integrated system of fuels and food. In real life -- unlike a typical computer model with excessively simplified and

October 15, 2010 Read Full Article

Export Exchange Conference Zeros in on Supply

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  U.S. farmers will continue to produce an abundance of food and feed for both the domestic and international markets. This was an often repeated message at the Export Exchange, a conference focused on connecting

October 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Let’s Not Rekindle “Food vs Fuel”

by Bob Meyer (Brownfield Ag News)  ...The American Coalition for Ethanol, Growth Energy, Renewable Fuels Association and National Corn Growers issued a joint statement noting “Global coarse grain supplies are nearly unchanged, the USDA reports with lower U.S. supplies offset

October 14, 2010 Read Full Article

USDA: US Ethanol Production More Efficient than Ever

John Davis (DomesticFuel.com) ...In an interview with USDA radio, Harry Baumes, Director of USDA’s Office of Energy Policy and New Uses says a new study shows that we’re getting more energy out of corn than what it takes to raise the

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Journal of Peasant Studies Publishes Perspectives on New Agrarian Relations Related to Biofuels

(Journal of Peasant Studies)   In this collection we ask a number of questions emerging out of the new agrarian political economy created by the ‘biofuel complex’. Together the papers offer perspectives from political economy, political sociology and political ecology, and

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Swedish Biofuels Do Have Major Benefits for the Climate

(Alpha Galileo)  For the first time, researchers have taken an overall look at Swedish biofuels and analysed what impact they have on the environment, both in relation to one another and to the fossil fuel alternatives petrol and diesel. The results

September 24, 2010 Read Full Article

ISAAA Chief Said Biotech Crops Only Way out of Global Poverty, Food Crises

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Canada, Dr. Clive James, executive director of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), said that “In the next 50 years, the global population will consume two times as much food

September 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels From Trash Could Replace Half of EU Gasoline by 2020, Study Says

by Alex Morales  (Bloomberg)  Biofuels made from plant waste and municipal trash rather than food crops could replace more than half of gasoline used in the European Union by 2020, industry analyst Bloomberg New Energy Finance said today. The 27-nation bloc could

September 16, 2010 Read Full Article

Africa: Up for Grabs

(Friends of the Earth International)   The African continent is increasingly being seen as a source of agricultural land and natural resources for the rest of the world. National governments and private companies are obtaining access to land across the continent

August 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Biodiesel Industries Selected for Proposed Grant by the California Energy Commission

(PRNewsWire)  Biodiesel Industries announced today the company's selection by the California Energy Commission for a project grant to support the state's Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. This Biofuel Production Plants grant provides funding and financial assistance for the

August 25, 2010 Read Full Article

Another Brick in the (Blend) Wall: Key Thresholds and Barriers for Biofuels

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...But even were the US EPA to approve E15 ethanol blending, there are some other significant walls and thresholds to keep in mind. Here are the Digest’s Top 10. 1. The $60 oil parity wall.  At the

August 20, 2010 Read Full Article

Camelina Meal Now Available for Use in Laying Hens

(PRNewsWire)  The North American Camelina Trade Association (NACTA) today announced the achievement of yet another milestone in its efforts to build camelina production and marketing opportunities for growers. The industry received a letter of no objection from the Center for

August 19, 2010 Read Full Article

APOV: A Strong Case for Ethanol

by John M. Sawyer and Michael C. Sawyer  (The Daily News)  ...Corn ethanol is not responsible for destruction of forest land. Total U.S. crop acres are actually declining, total U.S. land devoted to crops will be 346 million acres in

August 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Farmers & Ranchers Don’t Deserve Blame For World Hunger

by Richard Keller   (Cattle Network)  As renewable fuels continues to be something that people of the world support in general, there also continues to be those complaints that crop production and land use for fuels is inappropriate when so much

August 10, 2010 Read Full Article

World Bank: Impact of Biofuels on Commodity Prices “Not As Large” as Originally Thought

(Renewable Fuels Association)   A newly released report from the Development Prospects Group at the World Bank, conludes that “…the effect of biofuels on food prices has not been as large as originally thought, but that the use of commodities by

August 02, 2010 Read Full Article

Researchers Work to Fill Biofuel Gap

by Ashley Bray (Minnesota Daily)  The University (of Minnesota)’s Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering is working to develop sustainable, domestic biomass solutions. ...The University’s Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering — a division of the College of Food, Agricultural and

July 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Report Finds Bioenergy Production Can Expand across Africa without Displacing Food

(EurekAlert)  Policies needed to address potential conflicts, but report views bioenergy as crucial to 'unlocking Africa's latent potential'. Crops can be produced for bioenergy on a significant scale in west, eastern and southern Africa without doing damage to food production or

July 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Critics Slam EU-Brazil African Biofuel Plan

by Andrew Willis (Bloomberg Businessweek)  EU and Brazilian leaders are set to announce a new "triangular co-operation" initiative, under which they will aim to work together in some of the world's poorest countries, but NGOs say the duo's scheme is self-centred

July 19, 2010 Read Full Article

Ethanol Co-products Boost Nutrition in Asian Flatbread

(Innovations Report)  South Dakota State University research shows a traditional Asian flatbread called chapathi, or chapati, gets a big boost in protein and fiber when fortified with food-grade distillers grains. SDSU food scientist Padu Krishnan said it is one example of the

June 11, 2010 Read Full Article

Africa Heralds Biofuel Pipeline

by Michael Dynes  (The New Economy)   Of the billions of dollars that have been ploughed into the biofuel sector around the world over the past decade, only a tiny fraction has ever found its way to Africa. That is now

June 11, 2010 Read Full Article

Hoosiers Confident China Will Buy More Corn

by Gary Truitt  (Hoosier Ag Today)  After a Sunday touring Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China, it was back to work Monday for the delegates on the Indiana Agricultural, Jobs and Investment Trade Mission. ...Next was a

June 08, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels and Food Prices: An Update

by Patrick Westhoff (Huffington Post)  When U.S. food price inflation hit 5.5 percent in 2008, a lot of people pointed to growth in biofuel production as the culprit. A lot has happened in the last two years, so it may

June 08, 2010 Read Full Article

Food, Feed and Fuel Combine for a Modicum of Grain Price Stability

by Treena Hein  (Australian Farm Journal/June 2010)  Despite all the debate about negative climate change impacts on agriculture and rising world population increasing demand for food, the stark reality is that world grain stocks are finely balanced. Treena Hein discovers

June 03, 2010 Read Full Article

Corn Growers to Burnish Image with $1 Million in DC Ads

by Bill Lambrecht (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)  ...St. Louis-based National Corn Growers Association and growers from Missouri, Illinois and 12 other states from Maryland to Colorado are anteing up hoping to leave impressions on lawmakers and the Obama administration at a key time. Decisions on

June 02, 2010 Read Full Article

Future California Biofuels Production

by Cary Blake (Western Farm Press)  Steve Kaffka paints an optimistic picture of the future of California biofuels production.  Weather, water availability, and state and federal policies, Kaffka says, will help determine if California agriculture one day serves as a larger

June 01, 2010 Read Full Article

Europe’s Sugar Beets Produce Twice as Much Ethanol in the Tropics

(ELMIA.se)  Sugar beets from Europe can help solve the conflict between food and bioenergy in the developing world.  “Sugar beets have greater energy content than sugar cane but require rotation with other crops,” explained Jan Öhrvall at the World Bioenergy conference

May 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Debunking Myths on Biofuels

by Angie Chui (Manilla Bulletin)  Biofuels should not be viewed as a threat to food security. Instead, it should be considered a boone to the industry if the Brazilian experience is any indication. According to diplomat Andre Amado, many perceive the cultivation

May 20, 2010 Read Full Article

North Wales Algae Farm Aims to Feed the World

by Andrew Forgrave (Daily Post North Wales)  Waste food and even cow slurry could be used to feed the world using a farm-scale process being pioneered in North Wales. Start-up company Merlin Biodevelopments has devised a new way of growing protein-rich

May 19, 2010 Read Full Article

Ethanol Has Pushed Up Meat Prices? Bull

by Larry and Judy Kay  (Des Moines Register)  Letter to the Editor   Bloomberg ran a story about the rising price of meat on April 26, suggesting that the demand for ethanol was to blame. This is ridiculous. We are cattle feeders,

May 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Ethanol Co-Product Boosts Nutrition in Asian Flatbread

(PhysOrg.com)  South Dakota State University food scientist Padu Krishnan said it is one example of the ways in which distillers dried grains with solubles, or DDGS, can help improve human nutrition worldwide. DDGS is produced as a co-product when processing corn

May 07, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels No Conflict with Food Prices - Update

(Biofuels Association of Australia)  The Biofuels Association of Australia fired back at claims made by the Australian Lot Feeder's Association that biofuels are diverting crops away from food sources or pushing up food prices in Australia. "These sorts of comments by the

May 07, 2010 Read Full Article

Abengoa Takes on Myths about Biofuels with Evidence

(Abengoa Bioenergy)  Biofuels are being attacked. The claim "Bioethanol is the main cause of increased food prices is one of the many falsehoods that are being made to reach the public. Therefore, we decided to defend the sector and remove

May 06, 2010 Read Full Article

“You Have a Friend in Bioenergy”: Sustainability, Advanced Biofuels, Rural Incomes and the Developing World

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...With respect to energy security, consider this: it is estimated that ten percent of all US military casualties come from the delivery of fuel. Even if it were true that none of the deployments of

May 06, 2010 Read Full Article

Weed Could Be the Future of Biofuel

by Shanna Shipman (Gatehouse News Service, HollandSentinel.com)  ...(S)ientists and farmers are looking closer at one plant, formerly considered a mere botanical pest, and are discovering a world of beneficial possibilities. In short, this plant has the potential to yield unprecedented amounts

May 04, 2010 Read Full Article

Attention Whole Foods Shoppers: Your "Sustainable" Mantra -- Organic, Local, and Slow -- Is No Recipe for Saving the World's Hungry Millions

by Robert Paarlberg (Foreign Policy) ... Food has become an elite preoccupation in the West, ironically, just as the most effective ways to address hunger in poor countries have fallen out of fashion. Helping the world's poor feed themselves is no longer

April 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Namibia to Produce Own Biodiesel

by Chrispin Inambao (New Era)  LL Biofuels Namibia, a highly ambitious foreign-initiated and multi-billion-dollar venture, has secured 300 000 hectares of land from chiefs in Caprivi to plant jatropha, whose seeds will be press-crushed to produce much-sought-after biodiesel. Biodiesel that could be

April 22, 2010 Read Full Article

The Role of Demand for Biofuel in the Agricultural Commodity Price Spikes of 2007/08

by Simone Pfuderer, Grant Davies, Ian Mitchell  (Food and Farming Analysis, Defra)   This paper is part of a larger body of work that aims to shed more light on what led to the high agricultural commodity prices in 2008. The

April 06, 2010 Read Full Article

Liquid Biofuels:Background Brief for the World Bank Group Energy Sector Strategy

(Masami Kojima of the Oil, Gas, and Mining PolicyDivision of the World Bank/Scribd.com)  Liquid biofuels are being increasingly used to substitute fuels derived from oil. A number of governments have provided incentives for the liquid biofuel industry, prompted by a desire

March 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Furst-McNess Expands: Company Markets a By-Product of Ethanol Production to China

by Eric Petermann (The Journal-Standard)  Furst-McNess has started a new business that markets a by-product of ethanol production, dry distillers’ grain, for use as a feed supplement for livestock, and has already established a relationship that exports that product to

March 29, 2010 Read Full Article

How to Create Effective Biofuels Public Policy

by Joanna Schroeder (domesticfuels.com)  One of the biggest challenges for our country lies in the issue of how to create effective public policies that will grow the biofuels industry and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Dr. Antonio Bento, associate

January 25, 2010 Read Full Article

Growth Energy: GAO Report Clearly Refutes Big Food’s Claim That Ethanol was Behind Higher Food Prices

Tom Buis, CEO of Growth Energy, evaluated a recent US Government Accountabilty Office report, "“Now it’s the GAO that is saying that farm prices are a fraction of the hike to grocery bills. Whatever is driving up grocery prices won’t

August 11, 2009 Read Full Article

USDA Report Confirms Advances in Feedstock Production Technology, Practices

(25 x25) The USDA reported last week that American farmers are expected to produce 12.3 billion bushels of corn, the second largest U.S. corn crop in history. After estimating all of the uses of corn, USDA projects an excess corn

July 21, 2009 Read Full Article

Defining Sustainability: Science, Standards, and Scorecards: Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels

Barbara Bramble  (National Wildlife Federation), in her talk, emphasized the importance of sustainable biofuels and developing strategies to reduce GHG  emissions through the energy security, stabilization of commodity prices, and promotion of rural development. But the problem is that biofuels can’t do

March 20, 2009 Read Full Article
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