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ICE weekly outlook: Traders look to StatsCan, U.S. veg oil

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus November 23, 2016

CNS Canada — With questions about the size of Western Canada’s canola crop remaining, ICE Futures Canada traders are looking to an upcoming Statistics Canada report for indications on where to move next. Sharp advances in the Chicago Board of Trade soyoil market underpinned canola on the week, and investors are waiting to see if

Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn still rangebound despite recent gains

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin November 23, 2016

CNS Canada — Soybean and corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, but have little fundamental reason to continue in that direction, according to an analyst. Looking at corn, that market will be stuck in a sideways trading range for the foreseeable future, according to Preston Zacharias,

The Big River Resources ethanol plant at West Burlington, Iowa, about 120 km southwest of Davenport. (Steven Vaughn photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops

U.S. ups biofuel requirements in win for Big Corn

By GFM Network News, Reuters November 23, 2016

New York | Reuters — The U.S. government on Wednesday announced finalized targets for biofuel use for next year, requiring that energy companies blend 19.28 billion gallons of renewables into the nation’s fuel supply. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a statement set the target for conventional biofuel, or ethanol, at 15 billion gallons and

Crops

U.S. biodiesel executives plead guilty over fraud scheme

By GFM Network News, Reuters October 12, 2016

New York | Reuters — Two men pleaded guilty in a U.S. court on Wednesday to conspiracy, fraud and making false statements related to the U.S. government’s controversial policy designed to boost use of renewable fuels, according to court documents. The case comes in the last four weeks of a contentious U.S. presidential election campaign

Crops

Canada unveils carbon price, energy-producing provinces unhappy

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News October 3, 2016

Reuters — Canada’s federal government on Monday vowed to bring in a minimum price on carbon emissions by 2018, prompting one energy-producing province to threaten legal action and another to demand approval of an oil pipeline in return. Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who took power last November promising to do more to protect the

Comment

Canadian biofuels are a success story

Well-designed renewable fuel policies can be good for the environment, the economy, and agricultural producers

September 20, 2016

In an opinion piece published in a recent edition of this paper (Biofuels are one of our greatest environmental blunders), Gwyn Morgan questions the benefits of biofuels like ethanol and biodiesel. Mr. Morgan would have it that biofuels are a “blunder.” In our opinion, biofuels are a home run for the environment and the rural

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Biofuels are mankind’s greatest blunder

Proponents of biofuels are simply refusing to count their true environmental cost

By Gwyn Morgan August 22, 2016

Are biofuels really greener than the fossil fuels they displace? In a recent column I pointed out that electric cars are only as green as the fuel used to generate the electricity they consume. For internal-combustion-powered vehicles, much of the focus has been on trying to reduce carbon emissions by adding ethanol to gasoline and

Crops

Clinton campaign studying alternative to U.S. ethanol mandate

By GFM Network News, Valerie Volcovici August 3, 2016

Washington/San Francisco | Reuters — Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign has solicited advice from California regulators on how to revamp a federal regulation requiring biofuels such as corn-based ethanol be blended into the nation’s gasoline supply, according to campaign and state officials. The move is the clearest sign yet that, if elected, Clinton

Crops, Markets

Crude’s slide hampers demand for Canadian biofuel

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus February 11, 2016

CNS Canada — The trickle-down effect of slumping crude oil prices is being felt in the Canadian biofuel market and softening demand for corn and soybeans. Traditionally, ethanol is cheaper than gasoline, which encouraged processors to blend more than the mandated amount, according to Andrea Kent, president of the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association (CRFA). “When

Cereals, Crops, Forages

U.S. EPA finalizes 2016 renewables target at 18.1B gallons

By Chris Prentice, GFM Network News November 30, 2015

New York | Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants energy companies to blend 18.1 billion gallons (68.5 billion litres) of biofuels into the nation’s fuel supply next year, more than in a proposal laid out in May, it said in announcing final rules on renewables use for 2014-16 on Monday. The EPA’s long-awaited

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

Tag Archives Biodiesel

ICE weekly outlook: Traders look to StatsCan, U.S. veg oil

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn still rangebound despite recent gains

U.S. ups biofuel requirements in win for Big Corn

U.S. biodiesel executives plead guilty over fraud scheme

Canada unveils carbon price, energy-producing provinces unhappy

Canadian biofuels are a success story

Biofuels are mankind’s greatest blunder

Clinton campaign studying alternative to U.S. ethanol mandate

Crude’s slide hampers demand for Canadian biofuel

U.S. EPA finalizes 2016 renewables target at 18.1B gallons

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