As Congress continues to negotiate a new COVID-19 aid package, the pandemic continues to batter the U.S. ethanol industry and the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) wants lawmakers to know the challenges producers are facing. With losses from the pandemic nearing $4 billion, the ethanol industry continues to fight for implementation of the Tenth Circuit Court decision nationwide, and prepares to …
Biofuels Included in Ag Talks Roadmap for Trade
Farmers for Free Trade held a virtual press conference Tuesday to release a new report on the challenges and solutions for American agriculture on trade, supply chains and global competitiveness. The report is the culmination of a series of Ag Talk discussions across rural America and includes recommendations to drive demand for U.S. agricultural products at home and abroad. Recommendations …
Ethanol Report 12-15-20
A new analysis released by the Renewable Fuels Association shows the devastating impact COVID-19 pandemic restrictions continue to have on ethanol producers, with losses nearing $4 billion. RFA Chief Economist Scott Richman authored the white paper which shows ethanol production dropped by two billion gallons between March and November this year, which meant a 700-million-bushel decline in the use of …
Novozymes Offers New Enzyme Solution for Ethanol
Novozymes has launched a new bioenergy enzyme solution to increase oil and ethanol yields by utilizing previously untapped potential in corn conversion. Fortiva Hemi “brings novel enzymes to liquefaction that enable unmatched substrate conversion to deliver the highest corn oil and ethanol yields possible. Effective across the broadest pH and temperature ranges, it is also the most flexible liquefaction solution …
Wisconsin Governor Pledges Aid for Ethanol Plants
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers last week announced that up to $3.25 million of federal Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding will be made available to Wisconsin’s nine ethanol producers to help offset some of the significant losses experienced by the industry earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic. “I appreciate the efforts of Wisconsin’s ethanol industry to pivot and …
California Ethanol + Power Finalizes Deal With CHS
California Ethanol + Power last week awarded a 15-year contract to CHS Inc. to market and sell the 68 million gallons of Essential Ethanol to be produced annually by the Sugar Valley Energy campus located in California’s Imperial Valley. Minnesota-based CHS is the number one farmer cooperative in the country and one of the nation’s largest suppliers of ethanol-enhanced gasoline …
Ethanol Industry Needs Support as COVID Losses Rise
As COVID-19 cases rise and travel is being limited again, the consumption of ethanol-blended gasoline is on the decline again. In the first week of December, consumption of both gasoline and ethanol fell to their lowest points since May, according to data from the Energy Information Administration. According to a new analysis by the Renewable Fuels Association, ethanol industry losses …
Biofuels Groups Pleased with Vilsack Nomination
Tom Vilsack has officially been nominated to serve as Secretary of Agriculture in the Biden Administration, reprising the role he held under President Obama for eight years, and the biofuels industry is quite happy with that decision. Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Geoff Cooper says Vilsack is an excellent choice. “We are especially happy to have someone in the …
DOJ Opposes Supreme Court Review of RFS Waivers Decision
The Department of Justice has recommended against a Supreme Court review of the Tenth Circuit Court’s ruling earlier this year that invalidated several small refinery exemptions issued by EPA under the Renewable Fuel Standard. The DOJ filed its response Wednesday to a petition submitted in September by oil refineries HollyFrontier Corporation and CVR Energy asking the Supreme Court to review …
SIRE Announces Resignation of Longtime Board Member
Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy today announced the resignation of former Iowa State Senator and farmer Hubert M. Houser as a member of SIRE’s board of directors and chair of the Board’s Nominating Committee, effective immediately. Houser has been a member of the Board since 2005 as the owner of farm, cow-calf and poultry operation located near Carson, Iowa. He served …