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French Duck Fat Puts Gourmet Spin On Biodiesel

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PARIS/REUTERS Duck fat has a rich history in French cuisine as the key ingredient in savoury cassoulets and confits, but now industrious farmers are turning the grease into biodiesel and biogas. A farm co-operative based in St. Aquilin, a rural village in the southwestern region of the Dordogne, is powering a tractor and two other
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EU Gets Tough On Dirty Biofuel, Pledges More Action

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Europe’s energy chief announced seven green certification schemes for biofuels last month and promised to tackle the unwanted side-effects of turning food into fuel. Guenther Oettinger said biofuels’ indirect impacts were dangerous for the planet’s carbon balance and food supply. “It is a real concern … particularly in the big producing countries, Southeast Asia and
Grain Markets

Caution Needed As U.S. Farmers Borrow

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A senior U.S. lender is warning farmers to take a cautious approach to borrowing, with crop prices unlikely to maintain their high levels in the coming years and the U.S. debt crisis overhanging the economy. Emboldened by soaring grain and oilseed prices, U.S. farmers have aggressively borrowed to buy land and equipment in recent years,
Crops

Bioeconomy Gives Agriculture New Lease On Life

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The emerging bioeconomy is rewriting agriculture’s contract with society, a senior official with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives told bioengineers meeting in Winnipeg recently. Daryl Domitruk, director of the Agri-Food Innovation and Adaptation Knowledge Centre for Manitoba Agriculture and Rural Initiatives, said agriculture is often portrayed as “the bad guy” when it comes to
Livestock

Food-Versus-Fuel Debate Rages Anew

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Ethanol appears almost certain to win the food-versus- fuel contest in the United States. But not just yet. The Agriculture Department forecast that a tad more corn will be used to make ethanol than to feed livestock this year may be a false milestone: ethanol makers say they won’t use that much corn while producing
Crops

Brazil: The World’s 21st Century Breadbasket

Brazil has for centuries been known as a leading producer and exporter of the world’s breakfast foods – orange juice, coffee, sugar and cocoa. But over the past 2-1/2 decades since the opening of the economy to foreign investment, Latin America’s largest economy has also become a leading producer of important grains and meats, through
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Biodiesel’s “Green” Attributes Trashed By Four EU Studies

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Europe’s biodiesel industry could be wiped out by EU plans to tackle the unwanted side-effects of biofuel production, after studies showed few climate benefits, four papers obtained by Reuters show. Europe’s world-leading $13-billion biodiesel industry, which has boomed in the wake of a decision by Brussels policy-makers in 2003 to promote it, is now on
Cereals, Crops

Global Food Inflation To Return After Brief Respite

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Red-hot food inflation that has vexed policy-makers around the world seemed to take a breather last month, when corn and wheat prices tumbled on reports that crop shortages were easing. The sell-off was also driven by global economic worries that prompted funds to exit grains in droves. But prices are climbing again, and have already
Cereals, Livestock

Ethanol Producer Adding Cheap Wheat To Corn

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The Andersons Inc., a major U.S. ethanol producer, has started mixing wheat into its corn-based biofuel in a move to lower costs and diversify its sourcing amid increasingly tight corn supplies. Andersons, which operates three U.S. ethanol plants with total capacity of 300 million gallons, has started using soft red winter wheat along with corn.
Crops

PAMI Puts Biodiesel To Work On Farms

The Prairie Agricultural Machinery Inst i tute (PAMI) has released a compilation of several studies that showed biofuels perform well in Prairie farm equipment. Western Canadian farmers are major consumers of diesel fuel which is used in most types of farm equipment. “For both environmental and cost reasons, some producers have been looking for alternatives

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