The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) has strongly criticized a recent survey on public attitudes toward hunger as just another “PR opportunity” created to slam corn-based ethanol at a time when the farming and food industries especially need to work together to lower food prices for Americans....
By Jim Langcuster
Auburn University
Fate has dealt a cruel hand to Alabama farmers in the last few years — drought, spiking gas prices, higher operating costs and, more recently, a market meltdown that has severely affected farm commodity prices....
Mexico has the potential to increase its imports of distiller’s dried grains (DDGS) with solubles by four-fold, according to Julio Hernandez, U.S. Grains Council director in Mexico and Central America, speaking at the Council’s International Distillers Grains Conference in Indianapolis, Ind....
By Peter Kent
Clemson University
To reduce the Southeast’s dependence on oil, Clemson University will lead a $1.2 million bioethanol research project to find the best way to produce plant-based fuels in the region....
The U.S. ethanol industry will continue to grow in 2009, creating a substantial increase in the supply of distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS), a co-product of ethanol, according to Ken Hobbie, president and CEO of the U.S. Grains Council....
East Coast Ethanol LLC has announced plans to construct 110 million gallon per year ethanol plants in Jesup, Ga., Campellton, Fla., Chester, S.C. and Seaboard, N.C....
The American Soybean Association (ASA) is celebrating final passage of legislation that includes an extension of the biodiesel tax incentive for one year through Dec. 31, 2009, and provisions to shut down the abusive "splash and dash" practice that currently allows foreign-produced fuel to enter the U.S., claim the biodiesel tax incentive and be shipped to a third country for end use....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sorghums — grain, sweet and forage — offer unique opportunities as efficient, adaptable and drought tolerant feedstocks for biofuel production....
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Ed Schafer and Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman have released the National Biofuels Action Plan (NBAP), an interagency plan detailing the collaborative efforts of Federal agencies to accelerate the development of a sustainable biofuels industry....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Grain prices are good, and look to stay up for a while, but the main cause most widely attributed to these prices — biofuels — is just not happening in the Southeast....
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