BIO, Member Companies Urge Congress to Pass Five-Year Farm Bill, Maintain...
(BusinessWire/Biotechnology Industry Organization) The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and a group of renewable chemical companies and state advocacy organizations today wrote to the...
View ArticleRural Energy Efforts Run Low on Fuel as Farm Bill Expires
By Amanda Peterka (Midwest Energy News/Environment & Energy Daily) …But USDA’s ability to carry out projects like the installation of solar panels was left to dangle Monday night with the...
View ArticleCorn Prices Pressured by Both Supply and Demand Factors
by Darrel Good and Scott Irwin (University of Illinois/FarmDocDaily) Corn prices continue the long retreat from the peak of September 2012, declining to the lowest level since late August 2010. The...
View ArticleHand Up vs. Hand Out: New Government Programs Target Biofuels for Support in...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) …As most know, the US Government in the past few days re-opened for business, and there’s an attractive USDA Loan Guarantee program recently unveiled that aspiring...
View ArticleUSDA Announces Availability of Funding to Develop Advanced Biofuels Projects
(US Department of Agriculture) Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the availability of $181 million to develop commercial-scale biorefineries or retrofit existing facilities with...
View ArticleInnovation in Feedstock Transport, Testing
by Chris Hanson (Ethanol Producer Magazine) In August, Ernest Moniz, secretary for the U.S. DOE, announced more than $22 million in new investments to develop a more efficient feedstock supply chain...
View ArticleFeds Launch CSU-Run Research into Tapping Forests for Liquid Fuel
by Bruce Finley (Denver Post) The federal government is launching a $10 million, five-year project to tap overgrown and beetle-ravaged Western U.S. forests as a new source of non-oil liquid fuel that...
View ArticleUSDA Solicits New Bids under the Feedstock Flexibility Program
(US Department of Agriculture) The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced that the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is offering to sell its recently acquired sugar inventory for use as a...
View ArticleVilsack Defends EPA’s Slashing of RFS
by John Davis (DomesticFuel.com) Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is defending the Obama Administration’s proposal to cut the 2014 Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs) as part of the Renewable Fuel...
View ArticleCan Algae Clean Water, then Feed Livestock?
(Algae Industry Magazine) Can scientists grow algae in polluted water on dairy farms and then safely feed it to livestock? That’s what Shelton Murinda, an associate professor of animal and veterinary...
View ArticleUSDA Announces Notice of Funding Availability for Value-Added Producer Grants
(US Department of Agriculture) Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the availability of nearly $10.5 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grants to help agricultural producers...
View ArticleForfieted Idaho Beet Sugar Used for Ethanol
by John O’Connell (Capital Press) Ethanol plants in Idaho, Oregon and California are making ethanol from beet sugar forfeited by Amalgamated Sugar Co. Pacific Ethanol plants in Burley, Boardman, Ore.,...
View ArticleAgriculture, Navy Secretaries Promote U.S. Military Energy Independence with...
(US Department of Agriculture) Program blends homegrown biofuels with conventional fuels, propelling ships, jets and jobs Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus today...
View Article“Farm-to-Fleet” Industry Day January 30, 2014 Washington, DC
U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Navy’s joint “Farm-to-Fleet” venture will now make biofuel blends part of regular, operational fuel purchase and use by the military. This incorporates the...
View ArticleUSDA and DOE Fund 7 Research Projects to Develop Plant Feedstocks for Bioenergy
(US Department of Agriculture) The U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Energy (DOE) today announced $8 million in research grants to develop non-food feedstocks that can be used for bioenergy....
View ArticleUSDA Announces Results of December Invitation, Successful Sale of Remaining...
(US Department of Agriculture) he U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) today announced the results of the Dec. 3 invitation to sell the remainder of its recently...
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Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative’s Sustainable Alternative...
On November 27, 2012, CAAFI—in conjunction with FAA and the Department of Energy—hosted a stakeholder workshop to benchmark the cost of producing sustainable bio-based jet-fuel processes. The event was...
View ArticleUniversities Receive $10M to Study Biofuels
by Martiin Kidston (Missoulian) If 1 ton of woody debris can produce 50 gallons of fuel, how many gallons of fuel could 42 million acres of dead and dying forests produce? Funded by a $10 million...
View ArticleAgriculture Secretary Reports Progress at the U.S.-China Joint Commission on...
(US Department of Agriculture) Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today reported progress on a number of trade issues with China as a result of the 24th U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and...
View ArticleThe Digest’s Bioeconomy Achievement Awards for 2013-14
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Beta Renewables, Abengoa, Enerkem, Proterro among the winners for Project of the Year — as residues and waste are keys to the big wins. For Fuel of the Year, Renewable...
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