ethanol production News
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USDA Releases report on lifecycle greenhouse gas balance of ethanol
On January 12, 2017, USDA released a report on the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) balance of corn ethanol, titled “A Life-Cycle Analysis of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Corn-Based Ethanol.” The study reviewed industry and farm sector performance over the past decade and found that in the United States corn-based ethanol generates 43 percent less GHG emissions than gasoline. ...
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Growth Energy Leadership to Governors: No Need for RFS Waiver
Following the recent petitions to waive the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) by the Governors of Arkansas, North Carolina, Texas, Georgia and New Mexico, Co-Chairman of Growth Energy's Board of Directors, General Wesley K. Clark (Ret.) and Growth Energy CEO, Tom Buis sent a letter to the governors explaining why a waiver is unnecessary. The letter explains the flexibility of the RFS and how ...
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POET receives “MVP in Agriculture” award from SD Corn Growers
The South Dakota Corn Growers Association presented POET with the “MVP in Agriculture” award at their 30th annual banquet Saturday night at the Sioux Falls Arena. The MVP Award goes to an individual or organization that has helped reach common goals and advancement in the agricultural industry, according to SDCGA. “Poet played a lead role in completely changing the landscape ...
By Poet, LLC
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Growing Sorghum for Biofuel
Conversion of sorghum grass to ethanol has increased with the interest in renewable fuel sources. Researchers at Iowa State University examined 12 varieties of sorghum grass grown in single and double cropping systems. The experiment was designed to test the efficiency of double cropping sorghum grass to increase its yield for biofuel production. The author of the report, Ben Goff, found that ...
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Growing sorghum for biofuel
Conversion of sorghum grass to ethanol has increased with the interest in renewable fuel sources. Researchers at Iowa State University examined 12 varieties of sorghum grass grown in single and double cropping systems. The experiment was designed to test the efficiency of double cropping sorghum grass to increase its yield for biofuel production. The author of the report, Ben Goff, found that ...
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Europe’s new protein strategy needs fortifying
Commission proposal should have highlighted crop-based biofuel production’s role in reducing Europe’s need to import soybean meal and other animal feed BRUSSELS, 22 November 2018 – The European Commission’s new proposals for reducing the EU’s so-called ‘protein deficit’ have missed a golden opportunity to highlight an important domestic producer of ...
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Fueling ethanol production while protecting water quality
Grain-based ethanol production has increased dramatically in recent years as the cost and instability of oil has increased. New US government policies require major increases in ethanol production. While future plans call for a viable cellulosic ethanol industry, expanded grain ethanol production will lead to further growth of corn acres in the near term, with unintended negative water quality ...
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Pilot plant Photanol process operational
Photanol represents a process in which blue green algae combine photosynthesis with fermentation to convert CO2 under the influence of light in organic products e.g. ethanol, ethylene or lactic acid. After the “proof of concept” was delivered financial government support was obtained to build a pilot plant. This pilot was designed and constructed in the glass house of the Science Park ...
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Understanding land use change and US ethanol expansion
Understanding changes in land use—such as deforestation, urbanization and agriculture expansion—is important if society is to properly address the challenges of climate change, utilization of natural resources, and energy production and consumption. However, the intensifying debate over potential indirect land use changes resulting from biofuels expansion is nebulous at best. At worst, it is ...
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GreenShift Plans to Have Its Method II Corn Oil Extraction System Operating by Years End
GreenShift Corporation (OTCQB: GERS) today announced it plans to have its first method II oil recovery system operational by years end. This technology, which GreenShift refers to as COES II (corn oil extraction system, method II), is capable of recovering more than 1.33 pounds of corn oil per bushel of corn. GreenShift invented and patented the backend corn oil ...
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Latest LIBERTY agronomic data shows viability of biomass harvesting
Harvesting crop residue for cellulosic ethanol production is consistent with good farm management, according to the latest data from researchers with Iowa State University and USDA. The work was commissioned by POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels to ensure the sustainability of the joint venture’s plans to build cellulosic ethanol plants and license technology to producers in the U.S. and abroad. ...
By Poet, LLC
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Iowa Corn Farmers Featured in New Multimedia Campaign and ‘Fill Up on Me’ Sweepstakes
Four Iowa farmers are featured in a new multimedia, statewide, campaign by the Iowa Corn Growers Association and the Iowa Corn Promotion Board. Television advertisements focus on ethanol/economic development, products from corn to ethanol process and conservation practices on farm. The campaign will also include online, print, and radio messages. “We are proud of the outstanding ...
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FAO food price index drops in December
FAO's monthly Food Price Index declined in December after three months of stability. Continued large supplies and record stocks combined with a stronger US dollar and falling oil prices contributed to the decline. The December Food Price Index averaged 188.6 points, a drop of 1.7 percent from November, led down by sugar and palm oil. For the whole of 2014, the Food Price Index averaged 202 ...
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Algae.Tec Signs MOUs for China and Australia Pre-Listing
PERTH, Western Australia and ATLANTA - Algae.Tec Limited (ACN 124 544 190), which has secured the exclusive global rights to a pioneering highly-efficient algae growth and harvesting system (the McConchie-Stroud System) that produces algal products (such as algal oil and biomass) that can be used to generate sustainable bio-fuels, today announced two MOUs for non binding commitments to deploy the ...
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Scientists Develop Fast-Growing Sorghum for Biofuel
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, October 9, 2007 (ENS) - American cars and trucks may soon be fueled with sorghum. Not used widely as a food grain in the United States, sorghum is one of the five top cereal crops in the world, along with wheat, oats, corn, and barley. It was cultivated in Egypt in ancient times, and Africa still is the largest producer of sorghum today. Now, energy crop company Ceres, ...
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Farmers Now Harvesting Biomass for Project Liberty Opening
Farmers are now harvesting and delivering cob bales for the 2014 opening of Project LIBERTY in Emmetsburg, Iowa. Project LIBERTY is POET-DSM’s 20 million-gallon-per-year cellulosic bio-ethanol plant under construction today. The facility will use corn crop residue – cobs, leaves, husk and some stalk – to produce renewable fuel. Farmers for the 2013 harvest season already have ...
By Poet, LLC
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Europe’s sugar beets produce twice as much ethanol in the tropics
Sugar beets from Europe can help solve the conflict between food and bioenergy in the developing world. “Sugar beets have greater energy content than sugar cane but require rotation with other crops,” explained Jan Öhrvall at the World Bioenergy conference in Jönköping, Sweden. Öhrvall is working on a tropical sugar beet project being run by two companies: Anditec ...
By Elmia AB
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Grazing land has scope for biofuel surge
Converting grazing land into fields to grow crops for biofuels could provide up to 30 per cent of the world’s energy needs, according to a report. The report says at least 500 million hectares are available for sustainable biofuel production even when rising food demand, growing urbanisation and the desire to preserve forest and protected lands are taken into account. Most of this land is ...
By SciDev.Net
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2009 ASA–CSSA–SSSA meetings emphasize sustainability
The 2009 ASA–CSSA–SSSA International Annual Meetings are just around the corner, 1–5 November in Pittsburgh, PA. The theme of the meetings, “Footprints in the Landscape: Sustainability through Plant and Soil Sciences,” together with the location, emphasize sustainability. The meeting theme runs throughout the technical program that is built around daily plenary sessions, nine distinguished ...
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CSIRO aiming to lead the world in agricultural modelling
The joint venture has been formed to further develop the Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM) – a computer simulation model which takes into account many of the factors affecting a farm’s success, including different plant, soil and management approaches, to inform on-farm management decisions. APSIM has a broad range of applications including: farming systems design, assessment of ...
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