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U. S. Senate Passes Bill To Extend Biodiesel Credit

The U. S. Senate approved a bill March 10 that includes revival of the $1-a-gallon biodiesel tax credit for this year, which the renewable fuels industry has said is needed to increase output. The overall bill, approved 62 to 36, is a $149-billion package of jobless aid and tax breaks Democrats hope will help spur
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U. S. Ethanol Policy Frustrates Environmentalists

U. S. corn growers expressed relief when the Obama administration unveiled new environmental rules that would boost use of corn-based biofuel, but green groups complained the guidelines may fill the air with nitrogen, a greenhouse gas viewed as more potent than carbon. The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled what amounted to a tweaking of the national
Cereals, News

Ethanol Byproduct Cuts Into Barley Bids

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Imported Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles (DDGS) is increasingly displacing barley in the western Canadian feedlot sector, industry sources say. The loss in barley’s cash value was seen continuing given that DDGS have now become part of a scheduled program by the feedlot industry. “The need to cover barley needs by end-users has been slowing
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Helping Haiti: The federal government’s dollar-for-dollar aid-matching offer for those donating to Haiti relief through an approved charity ends Feb. 12. Donations to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank can be done online at: http://www.foodgrainsbank.ca/. In order to make a credit card donation, follow the link to: Donate to Haiti Response. Harold Penner, the CFGB’s Manitoba resource
Opinion

Are U. S. Ethanol Producers Making Money Now?

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The past year was challenging for the U. S. ethanol industry because at least a dozen ethanol plants filed for bankruptcy nationwide. However, profit margins for many plants have improved recently. This begs the question: Are ethanol plants making money now? Data provided by Iowa State University’s Agricultural Marketing Research Center shows ethanol production was
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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
Livestock

Vomitoxin Tests Ramped Up In U. S. Corn

Ethanol plants and elevators in the eastern U. S. Midwest have ramped up efforts to test incoming corn for vomitoxin, industry officials said last week. “(Ethanol) plants are testing every load of inbound corn for vomitoxin specifically,” particularly in areas where mould problems have been identified, said Geoff Cooper of the Renewable Fuels Association, an
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,
Cereals, Crops, News

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FUSARIUM RESISTANT, HIGH yielding feed wheat. Suitable for ethanol production & livestock production. For more information: Log on to www.wfgd.caor call: 1-877-250-1552. Funding by Cooperative Promotions Board.

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