The dramatic growth in biofuels made from crops is the runaway favorite for the year’s top stories in agriculture. “Emergence of biofuels as a factor in the farm economy really came out in 2006,” says USDA chief economist Keith Collins in a USDA Radio News report. “As that became realised in the second half of 2006 we saw commodity markets …
Ethanol Wins New Lottery Game
The newest scratch ticket lottery game in Kansas is offering an E85 vehicle as a grand prize, according to a release from the Kansas Lottery. The new Truck & Bucks game was developed by the Lottery, in partnership with the 3i Show and the GMC Division of General Motors. Players will have a chance to win a 2007 GMC Sierra …
Idaho to Consider Biofuel Incentives
The Idaho Legislature will be considering proposals in the coming new year to make ethanol and biodiesel more attractive to distributors in that state. Here’s the beginning of a very good article from Bonner County Daily Bee reporter Lucy Dukes about the biofuels climate in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. COEUR d’ALENE — Cindy James would consider using an ethanol-blended fuel if …
Biofuels Make Very Good Year For ADM
2007 has been a pretty good year for Archer Daniels Midland Company, with investors looking at gains of over 30 percent thanks in a large part to increased demand for ethanol. ADM earnings skyrocketed this year, according to an AP report, more than doubling in its fiscal first quarter ended Sept. 30 to easily beat Wall Street estimates. In the …
Iowa’s Ethanol Production Soaring
By the end of the year, Iowa will have produced a record 1.5 billion gallons of ethanol, more than one quarter of all the ethanol produced in the nation this year. According to the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, Iowa ethanol plants will produce 36 percent more ethanol than last year’s 1.1 billion gallons. With 26 biorefinies in operation, Iowa already …
Florida Ethanol Plant Falls Through
One of two Florida ethanol plants planned by U.S. EnviroFuels is not going to happen now. The company had run into issues earlier this year in negotiating a lease agreement to construct a 40 million gallon a year plant at Port Manatee. Company officials say because those issues could not be resolved, they are cancelling plans for the plant. However, …
Electronics Company Invests in Ethanol
Electronics retailer REX Stores Corporation of Dayton, Ohio has invested $14 million in Millennium Ethanol to build an ethanol producing facility in Marion, South Dakota. Fagen, Inc. of Granite Falls, Minnesota is providing design, engineering, procurement and construction services for the plant. The plant is expected to begin ethanol production in early 2008 and will have a design capacity of …
Commerical Cellulosic Plant Planned for Canada
Two Canadian companies, SunOpta Inc. and GreenField Ethanol Inc. have signed a joint venture agreement to develop and implement commercial scale processes for the production of cellulosic ethanol from wood chips, including the planned establishment of one or more commercial scale plants employing the new process. The first plant is planned to produce 10 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per …
New York Invests in Cellulosic Demo Plant
Mascoma Corporation of Cambridge, Mass. has received a $14.8 million award from the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to build and operate a biomass-to-ethanol demonstration plant in Rochester, New York. The project will focus on demonstrating “cellulose to ethanol” technology and industrial processes. International Paper Co., Cornell …
Another Ethanol Plant For Minnesota
Broin Companies has announced plans for an ethanol plant near Glenville, Minn. Glenville is located less than 10 miles southeast of Albert Lea, Minn., which is home to EXOL, a separate Broin managed facility that came on-line in August 1999 and operates at 45 million gallons per year. The new 60 million gallon per year Glenville Ethanol project will consume …