Need To Increase Agricultural Productivity

Chuck Zimmerman

Like the first speaker on our program today here at the Transition To A Bio Economy conference, our second speaker, David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley, says we need to increase agricultural productivity. His talk was on the distributional effects of biofeuls and he had two conclusions. The first one is that biofuels make some people better off and some …

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Ethanol and Corn Price Link Not Long Term

Chuck Zimmerman

The first speaker here at the Transition To A Bio Economy conference is Michael Wetzstein, University of Georgia. His talk deals with two issues. One is on price volatility and the other is on food and fuel. Michael says that gas price volatility can be avoided with fuel diversification by blending renewable fuels with fossil fuels. That’s what his research …

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Making a Transition To a Bio Economy

Chuck Zimmerman

The Farm Foundation conference, “Transition To A Bio Economy, Risk, Infrastructure and Industry Evolution” is underway here in Berkeley, CA. Getting us started was Farm Foundation Vice President, Steve Halbrook. This conference, which is focusing on biofuels, is part of a series, of which this is part 3. The Transition to a Bioeconomy series is designed to assess the impacts …

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Conference Addresses Ethanol Policy Issues

Cindy Zimmerman

“Policy Risks and Consequences for the Biofuels Industry” will be one of the topics addressed during a Farm Foundation conference entitled “Transition to a Bioeconomy: Risks, Infrastructure and Industry Evolution” June 24-25 in Berkeley, California. Seth Meyer with the University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) will talk about some of the findings in a new report …

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Transitioning To A Bio Economy

Chuck Zimmerman

Next week I’ll be attending Farm Foundation’s program titled, “Transition to a Bio Economy: Risk, Infrastructure and Industry Evolution.” They’ve been advertising here on Domestic Fuel and if you haven’t made your reservation then there is certainly still time. You may not be familiar with Farm Foundation or this series of programs they’ve been hosting on the subject of a …

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