Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer will lead the U.S. delegation to an International Conference on Biofuels in Sao Paulo, Brazil from Nov. 20-21....
By Dave Caldwell
North Carolina State University
It’s too early just yet to divine the future of the sweet potato, but a team of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences researchers at North Carolina State University is working on several fronts to make what the scientists call industrial sweet potatoes a viable crop for the state’s growers....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
East Coast Ethanol, LLC recently announced plans to build 110 million gallon per year ethanol plants in Chester, S.C., Seaboard, N.C., Jesup, Ga. and Campbellton, Fla, making the company the largest supplier of ethanol in the Southeast and the sixth largest in the U.S....
By Ann Perry
United States Department of Agriculture
Those lonely cornstalks — called corn stover — left behind in the fields after the grain harvest is complete could someday become valuable raw material for the production of cellulosic ethanol....
The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) has strongly criticized a recent survey on public attitudes toward hunger as just another “PR opportunity” created to slam corn-based ethanol at a time when the farming and food industries especially need to work together to lower food prices for Americans....
By Jim Langcuster
Auburn University
Fate has dealt a cruel hand to Alabama farmers in the last few years — drought, spiking gas prices, higher operating costs and, more recently, a market meltdown that has severely affected farm commodity prices....
Mexico has the potential to increase its imports of distiller’s dried grains (DDGS) with solubles by four-fold, according to Julio Hernandez, U.S. Grains Council director in Mexico and Central America, speaking at the Council’s International Distillers Grains Conference in Indianapolis, Ind....
By Peter Kent
Clemson University
To reduce the Southeast’s dependence on oil, Clemson University will lead a $1.2 million bioethanol research project to find the best way to produce plant-based fuels in the region....
The U.S. ethanol industry will continue to grow in 2009, creating a substantial increase in the supply of distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS), a co-product of ethanol, according to Ken Hobbie, president and CEO of the U.S. Grains Council....
East Coast Ethanol LLC has announced plans to construct 110 million gallon per year ethanol plants in Jesup, Ga., Campellton, Fla., Chester, S.C. and Seaboard, N.C....
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