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U. S. Sees Ethanol Output Eventually Meeting Target

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U. S. ethanol production could eventually top 14.5 billion gallons a year, up 16 per cent from output capacity at the beginning of 2009 and enough to blend 10 per cent of the fuel into every gallon of the nation’s gasoline, the U. S. government said Nov. 18. U. S. ethanol output capacity stood at
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Canada Biofuels Sector Seeks Bigger Fuel Mandate

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Canada’s biofuels industry will ask the government early in 2010 to expand fuel blending mandates and production incentives, even as plants rapidly boost capacity to meet incoming targets, the president of the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association said Nov. 12. “We absolutely would be looking at all those instruments as a way of ensuring we build
Cereals, Crops

Distillers Grain Set To Ride Ethanol Coattails

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Demand for distill-ers grain, a byproduct of distilling corn into ethanol, will continue to grow domestically and abroad as livestock producers turn to the feed as a cheaper alternative to corn, analysts said. And with the ethanol industry gearing up for a better year in 2010 after the financial crisis of 2008 triggered by corn
Crops, Pulses

New Energy Economics: Field Peas As An Ethanol Feedstock

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Corn has become the mainstay of ethanol production. However, many firms are investigating new feedstocks, such as switchgrass, forest products and algae, to produce cellulosic biofuels that meet pending federal and state regulations. Biofuel production from most of these alternative feedstocks has not been commercialized as yet. Moreover, numerous agronomic and environmental challenges also exist,
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Ethiopia To Develop Biofuels To Cut Oil Imports

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“Such a mix of ethanol with petrol has resulted in economic gains that include reduction in the levels of imported petrol.” Ethiopia wants to emulate Brazil by developing biofuels to cut its dependence on oil imports that cost the Horn of Africa nation more than a billion dollars a year, a government official said. Ephrem
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Canada Will Need To Import Ethanol

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Canada will need to import ethanol in order to meet its 2010 ethanol production target of two billion litres per year, according to an official with the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association (CRFA). Ethanol output in Canada is currently in the 1.731-billion-litre range. The five per cent national renewable fuels mandate that will be implemented by
Cereals, Grain Markets

Ethanol Still Supporting Grain Markets

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For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oi l seed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Sept. 25 lower with modest losses in canola. Canola was pressured down by the advancing harvest, favourable weather, bearish technical signals, slower demand
Livestock

Bumper U. S. Harvest Won’t Help Livestock

U. S. farmers are gearing up to harvest huge corn and soybean crops in the Midwest grain belt, but the bumper crops will not bring down the costs of food items made from them. Traditionally, livestock and dairy producers increase production when feed costs decrease. But banks may be reluctant to fund expansion efforts for
Crops

Bacteria Could Transform Ethanol Sector

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A compost bacteria bred by a British company could be set to transform both the profitability and environmental credentials of the U. S. ethanol industry. “The application of our technology results in the greening of corn ethanol,” Hamish Curran, chief executive officer of TMO Renewables Ltd. said in an interview Sept. 15. The company provides
Cereals, Opinion

Don’t Blame Ethanol For Hog Industry Woes

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Feed grain prices in Western Canada are not wholly dependent on the supply and demand in Western Canada. The dog days of summer are upon us, and with the last remnants of the small-town fairs still in the air, we’re left with fond memories of the circus clowns and second-rate magicians. Disappearing people, never-ending hankies,

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