In Washington state, Tidewater Transportation and Terminals inaugurated a $12.5 million ethanol unloading and storage site in Pasco to serve the Columbia and Snake River regions. The facility will be able to unload a 96-car train in 24 hours which used to take six days to do before the new automated facility was built. There […]
In Brazil, Bloomberg reports that UNICA is expected to tell a government committee dealing with ethanol and supplies that growing ethanol demand domestically has pushed sugar production down to its lowest level in 14 years to 25 million metric tons. UNICA hasn’t updated its production figures publicly so far this season, choosing only to report […]
In Nebraska, Brownfield Ag News reports that the head of Nebraska’s ethanol industry expects more shutdowns of ethanol plants to come, following a swath of closures announced over the past two weeks on the back of more demand destruction from the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent approval of 31 small refinery hardship waivers. If the market […]
In Washington, Representative Josh Harder (CA-10) slammed the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) for its incompetence in handling a local request for investment which would bring an estimated 2,000 jobs to the Central Valley. Aemetis Technologies is planning to open a new manufacturing facility in Riverbank but is reliant on foreign investments to […]
In India, the Hindu Business Line newspaper reports that with 48 million metric tons of sugar supplies on hand between current stocks and record production next year, the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories is asking the government for permission to use extensive volumes of sugar as feedstock for ethanol production. The association hasn’t put […]
In Nebraska, researchers from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln recently earned a $2.7 million, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a rapid, efficient method for characterizing the functions of genes in sorghum. The Nebraska scientists are leading a team of institutions from across the Corn Belt – including Iowa State […]
In Washington, Reuters reports that President Trump took to Twitter to announce a “giant package” to help farmers impacted by the demand destruction for biofuels caused by the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent approval of 31 small refinery hardship waivers. The tweet did not give details as to what the “giant package” would entail or when […]
Pumpkin spice everything is already appearing in stores across the U.S. and so is beer for Oktoberfest, but Anheuser-Busch’s beer will be delivered using zero-emission hydrogen beer trucks! Have some cheese with that beer as cheese waste is now being converted to biogas in the UK. And for back to school folks, there are backpacks […]
Retired Vice Admiral Philip Cullom is as impressive on paper as he is in person and offers a unique perspective- a retired Vice Admiral in the U.S. Navy, a native of Illinois, having served around the world in nine named operations, a physics degree from the U.S. Naval Academy, an MBA from Harvard, 20 impressive […]
In Washington, USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue told the Illinois Farm Progress Show that President Trump will announce a plan to mitigate the impact of small oil refinery waivers that have been issued in recent weeks. The Secretary did not offer a timeline, according to a Reuters report. Secretary Perdue declined to offer details or a […]
