Tag: corn
Poet halts corn deliveries at Indiana plant but continues ethanol production
Tweet In Indiana, Poet halted corn deliveries last week at its plant in Alexandria as it dealt with a maintenance issue but is expected to start receiving corn again this week. Despite the halt in corn deliveries, it continued to produce ethanol at the 68 million gallon facility. Reuters reported the story in response to [...]
Study shows innovations have lowered energy demand for ethanol production
Tweet In Illinois, new study entitled “2012 Corn Ethanol: Emerging Plant Energy and Environmental Technologies” found that recent innovations in corn ethanol production have resulted in increased yield per bushel even as less energy is required for production. Thermal energy use at a typical dry mill ethanol plant has fallen 9% since 2008, the study [...]
US ethanol production edges upwards
Tweet In Washington, the Energy Information Administration is reporting that ethanol production averaged 807,000 barrels per day (b/d) — or 33.89 million gallons daily. That is up 2,000 b/d from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production stood at 804,000 b/d for an annualized rate of 12.33 billion gallons. Stocks of ethanol stood [...]
Record-High corn, soybean acreage tipped for 2013
Tweet Determined to make up for a crop that was adversely affected by historic drought last year, U.S. farmers intend to plant a record-high combined 174.4 million acres of corn and soybeans in 2013, according to the Prospective Plantings report released today by the National Agricultural Statistics Service. If realized, corn will represent the highest [...]
“Peach genome offers insights into breeding strategies for biofuels crops.”
Tweet Today on Twitter: sciencecodex Peach genome offers insights into breeding strategies for biofuels crops AryehsSharings More corn for biofuels means fewer grasslands and wetlands: Christopher Wright and Michael Wimbe… mkishoresarkar Are Algae Biofuels a Realistic Alternative to Petroleum? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network CarsonBerger @GeneralClark on @CNBC 3/22/13 spreading the truth about #BioFuels This is a [...]
Bloomberg sees cellulosic ethanol competitive with corn in 2016
Tweet In the UK, ethanol manufactured from non-food “cellulosic” feedstock is on course to be cost competitive with corn-based ethanol by 2016, according to an industry survey conducted by research company Bloomberg New Energy Finance. It said cost of enzymes, pre-treatment and fermentation have fallen significantly, but cellulosic biofuels still have some way to go [...]
Ethanol’s discount to gasoline shrinking quickly
Tweet In Illinois, corn futures are rising on the expectation that the next crop may also be tight, which is helping to support ethanol futures, in turn tightening the ethanol-to-gasoline discount. That discount shrank by 10.45 cents to 58.56 cents a gallon on Tuesday, the narrowest it has been in three weeks and the biggest [...]
Corn growers’ CAP program a success, trade group says
Tweet In Missouri, the National Corn Growers Association is highlighting success with its Compliance Assurance Program, which includes on-farm refuge assessments, an online survey and IRM education and awareness, is seeing strong success and an increase in the number of growers planting their corn refuge. The CAP is designed to improve compliance with Insect Resistance Management [...]
BASF to expand its plant biotechnology research into fungal resistance in corn
Tweet In North Carolina, BASF is expanding its fungal resistance research platform by adding corn as a target crop. At the same time, research activities in Nutritionally Enhanced Corn will be stopped and the European approval processes for potato products will be discontinued. BASF will continue to focus on the development of crops that deliver [...]
Valero mothballed three of its 10 ethanol plants during Q4
Tweet In Texas, Reuters reports that due to high ethanol inventories mixed with high corn prices, Valero had to idle three of its 10 ethanol plants during the fourth quarter of 2012. The trend follows along with others around the country mothballing due to high corn prices, with the Renewable Fuel Agency reporting that 34 [...]
