Great Plains Institute hosts Minneapolis meeting
October 18, 2011
USDA ends REAP year with $3 million for blender pumps
New group focuses on fuel choice in the marketplace
Ag industry needs to present united front, Vilsack says
Many proposed projects in holding pattern
People, Partnerships & Deals
By Kris Bevill, Holly Jessen, Susanne Retka Schill
October 18, 2011
The European Union's Customs Code Committee recently approved a draft regulation to classify E90, any blend of 70 percent ethanol or more and 30 percent gasoline or less, as denatured ethanol.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has proposed an amendment to the ag appropriations act of 2012 that would prevent any funds from being used to support ethanol infrastructure.
U.S. ethanol exports are at a whopping 640.7 million gallons for January through August. The number is especially impressive as the industry has already exported more than 243 million gallons more ethanol than it did in total during 2010.
Novozymes, ICM project aims to improve health, stop deforestation in Africa
Thanksgiving table offers ideas for new drying agents
Researchers use near-infrared sensing to measure yield in switchgrass
Syngenta moves ahead with Bunge lawsuit
USDA grant focuses on Southeast biomass supply
Proving the sustainability of crop residue removal
Will RINs prove that the RFS needs modifying?
The Plant, a Chicago-based vertical farm and food business incubator, received $1.5 million in state funding for an anaerobic digester that will consume brewery waste.
Valio Ltd has awarded Metso-Wartsila Power a contract to install and commission a biomass boiler system at its Lapinlahti, Finland, cheese plant. It will generate the steam and heat needed for the cheese plant's operations.
Once completed and operational, a 300,000-ton wood pellet mill near Portland, Maine, will export its product to European customers through one of only two deepwater ports in the Northeast U.S.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada-based Firebox Energy Systems Ltd. has announced plans to build a 30-megawatt (MW) biomass power plant on the designated lands of Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation Reserve #133 near Glenevis, Alberta.
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