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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, 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.
Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Jun. 23, 2011

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Ethanol vote fails:A proposal to end subsidies for the U.S. ethanol industry failed a key vote in the Senate June 14. The Senate voted 59 to 40 against limiting debate on the measure from Republican Tom Coburn that would have ended the federal ethanol tax credit and the tariff on ethanol imports before they were
Crops

New Questions Being Raised About Benefit Of Biofuels

Anew report raising additional doubts about the green credentials of biofuels has stalled investment in Europe and threatens the future of some producers. After a two-year investigation, the European Commission has decided that the complex issue of “indirect land use change” can lessen carbon savings from biofuels. The concept is relatively new, and still being
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Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Coming?

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The straw Red River Valley farmers burn in their fields could soon be burning in their half-ton engines instead. An official with Shell Canada confirmed the fossil fuel oil company is looking across Western Canada, including Manitoba, for a site to build a cellulosic ethanol plant with its partner Iogen Corporation. “Shell has committed to
Crops, Oilseeds

U.S. May Open To Canadian Biofuels

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While it will likely be months before a decision is made, the U.S. Envi ronmental Protect ion Agency has launched a process that could open the American market to Canadian biofuels and biomass. The EPA has called for comments on a request from Ottawa to accept Canadian crops and crop residue for use in making
Cereals, Crops

Feed Wheat Helps To Fill Corn Void

Arecord five billion bushels of corn will be used to make fuel ethanol, a potential strain on the tightest U.S. corn supply in 15 years, but it will be offset by more use of wheat as a substitute for corn in hog and poultry rations, said the government on April 8. USDA pegged the carryover
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USDA Changes Corn Wording After Ethanol Makers Complain

The U.S. government introduced new wording on corn use on April 8 following complaints from ethanol makers that they were not getting credit for the corn byproducts that are fed to livestock. Instead of saying “corn for ethanol” in its monthly report, the U.S. Agriculture Department now spells out the corn is going to produce
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Biofuel Standards Will Affect Farmers

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The Renewable Fuel Standards will have an effect on farmers. The federal mandate is that there is a renewable fuel quantity that must be added to fossil fuel, for gasoline a five per cent ethanol blend will be added and for biodiesel a two per cent blend will be added to diesel. These amounts are
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Don’t Overlook Feed Value Of DDGs

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Ethanol producers often get much of the blame for driving the price of corn to its current multi-year high levels due to that industry’s strong usage of corn to make fuel. But critics overlook the growing production and distribution of Dried Distillers Grains (DDGs), a byproduct of ethanol output used in animal feeds as an

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