Food Politics

JANUARY 11, 2024

I’ve been appalled by the vast percentage of domestic corn production used to produce ethanol —nearly half. Here’s what’s being used for biodiesel production. We aren’t raising animals specifically to produce biofuels. was dramatic in recent years, with capacity in the last two years expanding by 1.8

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 13, 2024

Used for cooking oil, processing foods, biofuel and protein for both animal feed and human consumption, it’s safe to say that it’s important to keep this vital crop protected from diseases such as clubroot, a. With an average of over 20 million seeded acres in Canada, canola is one of Canada’s most widely grown crops.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Comment Re: Procedures for Quantification, Reporting, and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with the Production of Domestic Agricultural Commodities Used as Biofuel Feedstocks (Docket No. USDA-2024-0003) Dear Director Hohenstein, NASDA appreciates the opportunity to respond to the U.S. territories.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 5, 2023

On this show, host Shaun Haney is joined by: Steve Pratte, senior manager, transportation and biofuel policy with the Canadian Canola Growers Association, on Transport Canada’s upcoming railway policy review; Erin Gowriluk, president of Canada Grains Council, on the importance of science-based policy; and, Alanna Koch, Read More

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Food Politics

APRIL 4, 2024

The USDA has released its latest data on sugar production and the 20-year downward trend continues. But now that so much of it is grown to produce ethanol biofuel, its cost is about the same so there is no point in using it except in products where it works better—soft drinks, for example. Why the drop in corn sweeteners?

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Canola is just one of many on the list of products, services, and commodities bracing for the negative impacts of the U.S. about how canola from Read More Canola is just one of many on the list of products, services, and commodities bracing for the negative impacts of the U.S. tariff regime. tariff regime.

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Agwired

JANUARY 15, 2025

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack held his last official press conference of his tenure at USDA on Wednesday, announcing the publication of an interim rule on Technical Guidelines for Climate-Smart Agriculture Crops Used as Biofuel Feedstocks. The action today is essentially what was missing from the 45Z guidance offered by U.S.

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Western FarmPress

JUNE 21, 2024

Michigan State University receives a $750,000 grant to explore options.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 2, 2023

Ontario-based Dairy Distillery has already proved you can make amazing things from a “waste” product, through its creation of Vodkow vodka using milk permeate. Now, the company is partnering with the Michigan Milk Producers Association (MMPA) to create a milk-made biofuel.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 17, 2024

Azure Sustainable Fuels Corp. is on track to begin producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by 2027. That plan got an $8.4 million boost through the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) today. Sustainable aviation fuel can be used directly in aircraft engines by blending up to 50 per cent with traditional jet fuel, and has the potential. Read More

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Agricultural Economics Insights

MAY 19, 2024

billion pounds of soybean oil would be used in biofuel production. soybean oil usage trends During the 2014/15 marketing year, biofuel accounted for just 24% of soybean usage in the U.S. billion to biofuel, and 2.0 soybean oil production since 2011/12. soybean oil production since 2011/12.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 21, 2024

Treasury Department regarding sustainable aviation fuel production from biofuels. Mike Pearson takes a look at long awaited guidance from the U.S.

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Western FarmPress

JUNE 13, 2024

biofuels boom, undercutting American farmers by flooding the market with a little-known commodity that can be used to make renewable fuels. Brazil is reaping the benefits from a U.S.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 18, 2025

and various production technologies. farm production more than doubled, and farm size increased from an average of 215 acres in 1950 to 464 acres in 2023. farm output nearly tripled, while global grain production has more than quadrupled since 1950 and has doubled since 1975. From 1950 to 2000, U.S. Between 1961 and 2017, U.S.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These vital programs operate in all fifty states and a failure to fund them in a farm bill or farm bill extension in 2024 negatively impacts countless farmers, ranchers, and food system stakeholders.

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Western FarmPress

JANUARY 14, 2025

Treasury Department for the 45Z tax credit to promote biofuel production. Mike Pearson takes a look at the preliminary rule released by the U.S. However, the industry is not impressed.

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 26, 2023

Farmers Weekly Teesside biofuel operator Ensus UK is to build a new £60m-£70m animal feed plant at its Wilton International plant, as one of a number of major new projects. The biorefinery already produces about 350,000t/year of dried distillers’ grains with solubles (DDGS) as a by-product, primarily used by UK cattle and pig farmers.

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Western FarmPress

APRIL 27, 2024

Companies are closing soybean crushing facilities for longer as used cooking oil and other ingredients are being imported for biofuel production.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 15, 2025

USDA has published an interim rule on Technical Guidelines for Climate-Smart Agriculture Crops Used as Biofuel Feedstocks that establishes guidelines for quantifying, reporting, and verifying the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of corn, soy, and sorghum.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In the September budget, the Liberals committed $776 million for a retooled CFF to drive production of renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, and renewable natural gas, Read More

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ProAg

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Department of Energy report on biofuel production showed another big month for biodiesel. billion pounds of soybean oil were used to make biofuels in August, thanks to the sky-high growth of renewable diesel production. The post Soybean Oil Demand Climbs as Renewable Diesel Production Booms appeared first on ProAg.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 16, 2025

Without new demand for corn and soybeans, producers are facing a sideways market plateau that could last 10 years. Over the next decade, corn could be anchored in a $4.30 trading range and soybeans could be stuck in the same mud at $10.30

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ATTRA

JUNE 4, 2024

Researchers at Princeton University and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center modeled a supply chain for second-generation biofuels that addresses both the crop and processing aspects of biofuel production.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In the September budget, the Liberals committed $776 million for a retooled CFF to drive production of renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, and renewable natural gas,… Read More

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ATTRA

JULY 1, 2024

grown biofuel feedstock crops. This input will help in establishing voluntary standards for biofuel feedstocks grown with practices that mitigate GHG emissions and/or sequester soil carbon. The public comment period will end July 26, 2024.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 19, 2023

The company says production will begin at the Prince George, B.C., Tidewater Renewables has completed construction on Canada’s first stand-alone renewable diesel refinery. facility “soon.” ” British Columbia’s government and Tidewater announced the completion of the project on Friday, June 16, 2023.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

ADM and Syngenta Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the development of low carbon, next-generation oilseeds and improved varieties to help meet growing demand for biofuels fueled by sustainable aviation fuel. This cannot be done alone.

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Agric4profits

JULY 21, 2024

Sorghum nodes are important structures found on the stem of the sorghum plant, which is a major cereal crop grown globally for food, fodder, and biofuel.

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ATTRA

JULY 20, 2024

A group investigating how to make better use of the diverse agricultural waste in California’s Northern San Joaquin Valley received funding for a project to create a database and support technology for sustainable bioproducts and biofuels.

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NASDA

OCTOBER 3, 2024

We are concerned such an omission will create significant problems for agricultural producers and commercial establishments by preventing the conversion of recyclable organic materials into high-value, high-quality finished products.

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Agwired

MARCH 20, 2025

Department of Agricultures Office of Energy and Environmental Policy regarding the interim rule on Technical Guidelines for Climate-Smart Agriculture Crops Used as Biofuel Feedstocks. The Renewable Fuels Association submitted formal comments to the U.S.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Agricultural innovation company Terviva has announced an investment from Chevron Renewable Energy Group to help scale production of pongamia for low carbon renewable fuel. Crude pongamia oil can be converted into biodiesel, renewable diesel, or sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

If theres one thing thats predictable in the current grain markets, its unpredictability. While farmers are not complaining about a trend reversal in the corn market to the upside, the uncertainty of whats at play in the market does create some stress.

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DTN

MARCH 21, 2024

Collected once every five years by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service, the 2022 Census of Agriculture is a 757- page document spanning more than 6 million data points on land use and ownership, operator characteristics, production practices, income, and expenditures.

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NASDA

AUGUST 20, 2024

Agricultural facilities have no viable alternative transportation options to supply Canada’s international customers and the inability to cycle products through the supply chain could limit producers’ ability to deliver harvested crops. There are even higher volumes that would be lost during harvest.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

corn product and has increased the price of corn by about 30% and other crops by about 20% annually (Lark and Stevens agreed with this. The overall energy production of ethanol is positive. Cooper estimated that for every 1 btu put into ethanol production, 3 or 4 btus are produced. Ethanol represents about ⅓ of the U.S.

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DTN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The production process also differs, with biodiesel produced through transesterification, which converts FOG feedstock through its reaction with alcohols and catalysts. Consequently, renewable diesel production facilities are increasingly converted parts of crude oil refineries or complete conversions of refineries.

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