Category: ethanol
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Ethanol Industry Problems
<a href="http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=N22604105&WTmodLoc=World-R5-Alertnet-4" >US ethanol firms may scrap plants as margins fall</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>U.S. ethanol producers may start scrapping plant construction plans after a surge in the cost of corn and a slide in gasoline prices put profit margins into the red, analysts said on Monday.<br />n<br />nThe outlook could damp a dramatic building boom as…
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Iceberg
I see that my contention that food prices will rise because of ethanol production is not all hot air, it's starting to be seen.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MEXICO_EXPENSIVE_TORTILLAS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Mexicans cope with rising tortilla price</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Soaring international demand for corn has caused a spike in prices for Mexico's humble tortilla, hitting the poor and forcing President Felipe…
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Ethanol Concerns Grow
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/vetlife_content.asp?contentid=96920" >Ethanol Production Threatening Livestock Industry, Food Supply</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Think tanks and livestock producers alike are alarmed at the rate of growth of the ethanol industry and its effect on feed supplies for the meat industry.<br />n<br />nRon Plain, an agricultural economist at the University of Missouri, says that increases in corn costs have…
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News, Maybe
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ETHANOL_FIGHT?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Ethanol boom divides farmers, ranchers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>From corn fields to Wall Street, enthusiasm for ethanol is at an all-time high. But not everyone is enthusiastic.<br />n<br />nDemand for the corn-based fuel is driving up the cost of feed corn, making it more expensive to feed cows, chickens and pigs.<br />n<br />n"It's hard to…
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Ethanol Board SB 122
Montana Legislature alert. (I'll add this to all post that are very strictly about the Legislature for those not interested.)<br />nWith the Montana Legislature in session I have been paging through the <a href="http://laws.leg.mt.gov/pls/laws07/LAW0217W$BAIV.return_all_bills">bills proposed</a> and a few caught my eye. Here is one.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/SB0122.htm">SB 122</a><br />n<br />nEstablish ethanol education board<br />n<br />n<blockquote>The…
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Resonable Thoughts
I've been trying to get a handle on what is going to happen to cattle prices with the Ethanol boom driving corn prices so high. Part of <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/14/news/local/30-stockgrowers.txt">this story</a> finally clued me in to the best explanation I've seen.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>What might be really ridiculous is corn going to $4 a bushel.<br />n<br />nMichael…
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What You Talkin About?
<blockquote>Soaring corn prices are squeezing meat and milk producers, but consumers will not necessarily see higher prices at the grocery checkout, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said in an interview Thursday.<br />n<br />nCostly corn has made it more expensive to feed cows, chickens and pigs. Demand for ethanol, a fuel made from corn, has pushed the…
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Enough To Eat
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/11/19/news/business/54-scientists.txt" >Scientists urge research to aid in balancing food, energy needs</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>To ensure that there's enough corn to fuel humans as well as vehicles, scientists are urging more research into boosting corn yields and improving ethanol production.<br />n<br />nMany key issues related to expanding the nation's ethanol industry aren't being studied under current…
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Finally An Explanation
I have been noticing more and more advertising lately from the big auto makers on the E85 Flex Fuel vehicles they arfe selling and how they are good for the enviroment and the nation. I can't figure out how this works. E85 fuel is sold in very few places so how do these Flex Fuel…
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Interesting News
<a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-08-10T181804Z_01_N10469272_RTRIDST_0_FOOD-BEEF-JAPAN.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna" title="Reuters News">U.S. beef sales to Japan off to fast start</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Sales of U.S. beef to Japan are off to a fast start with 500 metric tons sold since the market reopened July 27 and three stores in Tokyo selling out of their offerings this week, U.S. meat industry sources said on Thursday.<br…