U.S. ethanol exports are at a whopping 640.7 million gallons for January through August. The number is especially impressive as the industry has already exported more than 243 million gallons more ethanol than it did in total during 2010.
Ethanol for Cooking
October 18, 2011
Novozymes, ICM project aims to improve health, stop deforestation in Africa
Delicious Inspiration
October 18, 2011
Thanksgiving table offers ideas for new drying agents
Grading Grasses on the Cheap
October 18, 2011
Researchers use near-infrared sensing to measure yield in switchgrass
Battle of the GM Corn
October 18, 2011
Syngenta moves ahead with Bunge lawsuit
Building Supply
October 18, 2011
USDA grant focuses on Southeast biomass supply
The Round and Square of It
October 18, 2011
Proving the sustainability of crop residue removal
Gauging 2012 Volumes
October 18, 2011
Will RINs prove that the RFS needs modifying?
Citing “serious concerns� with the U.S. EPA's decision on E15, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., introduced legislation in the House requiring an independent scientific of E15 use in vehicle, marine and small engines.
Global engineering company Chemtex made announcements Oct. 13 about two separate cellulosic ethanol projects--one under construction in northern Italy and the second planned in Brazil.
The Illinois EPA has filed a request with the state attorney general asking for a judicial order that would require Iowa Interstate Railroad Ltd. to conduct an investigation of environmental impacts associated with an Oct. 7 train derailment.
The biomass industry is a new frontier for the team at the Gemstone Group, a renewable energy investment banking firm, and according to Gary Kleiman, founder, his team is looking for opportunities to partner and help people with their projects.
Experts explain feedstock supply chain intricacies
October 13, 2011
Ask J.D. Lindberg, principal and CFO for Resource Recycling Systems Inc., about the intricacies of feedstock supply contracting, and he would most likely tell you that 'glass time is money.'
Legislators introduce Farm Bill
October 12, 2011
Two Indiana legislators have introduced Farm Bill legislation that would target $40 billion in cuts to the USDA's budget and make several alterations to the programs included under the current Farm Bill's energy title.
WASDE: New crop acres down, yield unchanged, beginning stocks up
October 12, 2011
As expected, the USDA raised its feed grain stocks projections in the World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates report issued Oct. 12 as higher beginning stocks more than offset lower forecast production.
Researchers from the University of Florida have found a way for tree breeders to create a new pine variety in about six years—less than half than the more than 13 years it takes without the genetic technique.
A newly formed group -- the Coalition for E85 -- is battling an E85 price increase at the end of the year, when the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit is likely to expire. In its place, the coalition is lobbying for a 50 cent per gallon tax credit.
The Minnesota Department of Commerce is investigating an issue with ethanol-blended gasoline in 21 communities after Magellan Midstream Partners LP mistakenly distributed gasoline blended with high percentages of ethanol in southern Minnesota.
Despite being caught up “in the most disappointing kind of politics,� Energy Sec. Steven Chu said recently that the U.S. DOE and the Obama administration remain firmly committed to the department's loan guarantee program.
Biomass harvests will change the dynamics of harvest. It will require manpower, yes. The equipment needs will be great. In the end, that infamous American farmer ingenuity will figure out how to get it done better and faster.
Firefighters battled a major ethanol blaze stemming from an Oct. 7 train derailment just outside Tiskilwa in rural northwest Illinois received assistance from two nearby ethanol plants in the form of fire-fighting foam.
Highlands EnviroFuels LLC received its air permit as well completed an economic impact study, moving the Lake Placid, Fla ethanol project forward. Sugarcane and sweet sorghum feedstocks will be supplied by nine grower investors.
RFA and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, issued a joint statement from the RFA's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., asserting the two groups' commitments to implementing renewable fuel technologies.
Corn Plus faces charges regarding emissions equipment
October 07, 2011
Corn Plus LLLP, Winnebago, Minn., is facing charges that it violated the Clean Air Act by providing false information regarding its pollution control equipment to the U.S. EPA in January.
A coalition of seven ethanol and agricultural organizations responded swiftly in opposition to a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, that seeks to link the corn supply to the RFS requirements for corn ethanol.
The new yeast is highly efficient at fermenting xylose, and is also highly resistant to fermentation-inhibiting substances like acetic acid. Toyota is also developing technologies for the various processes involved in cellulosic ethanol processing.
The International Energy Agency and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development again came out in favor of eliminating fossil fuel subsidies worldwide.
Old crop corn stocks are down more than 30 percent compared to a year ago, according to the USDA quarterly grain stocks report released Sept. 30. Those numbers are up, however, from previous predictions.
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