Australia’s first imported sample of U.S. distiller’s dried grains with solubles, a co-product of U.S. ethanol production, successfully cleared inspections Dec. 3 after arriving at the Port of Melbourne on Nov. 25. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers in east Tennessee are harvesting 723 acres of switchgrass this fall which a new cellulosic ethanol plant will turn into ‘grassoline.’...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Forage-based ethanol production will not solve all of the nation’s energy woes, but it’s a good place to start....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A broad coalition of food industry, environmental and other “grassroot” organizations are calling on President-elect Barack Obama and Congress to enact legislation phasing out subsidies for ethanol production....
By Peter Hull
Clemson University
If a major biofuels refinery is built in South Carolina, it likely will source raw material from Palmetto State fields — an enormous opportunity for the state’s growers, a Clemson alternative energy researcher says....
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced that applications are being accepted for loan guarantees under the Biorefinery Assistance Program (Section 9003), authorized by the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, ("the farm bill")....
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer will lead the U.S. delegation to an International Conference on Biofuels in Sao Paulo, Brazil from Nov. 20-21....
By Dave Caldwell
North Carolina State University
It’s too early just yet to divine the future of the sweet potato, but a team of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences researchers at North Carolina State University is working on several fronts to make what the scientists call industrial sweet potatoes a viable crop for the state’s growers....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
East Coast Ethanol, LLC recently announced plans to build 110 million gallon per year ethanol plants in Chester, S.C., Seaboard, N.C., Jesup, Ga. and Campbellton, Fla, making the company the largest supplier of ethanol in the Southeast and the sixth largest in the U.S....
By Ann Perry
United States Department of Agriculture
Those lonely cornstalks — called corn stover — left behind in the fields after the grain harvest is complete could someday become valuable raw material for the production of cellulosic ethanol....
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