Archive for 2019

Corn growers to get larger bailout but NCGA says government needs to reopen markets and stop ethanol demand destruction

Corn growers to get larger bailout but NCGA says government needs to reopen markets and stop ethanol demand destruction

August 26, 2019 |

In Washington, the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) President made the following statement on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) release of its methodology to determine commodity payment rates for the Market Facilitation Program (MFP). The payment rate for corn is $0.14 per bushel. “NCGA welcomes USDA’s transparency in this process. Corn farmers were understandably […]

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Canada to boost rapeseed exports to Europe for biodiesel

Canada to boost rapeseed exports to Europe for biodiesel

August 26, 2019 |

In Canada, Bloomberg reports that the country is looking to boost its rapeseed exports to Europe as biodiesel feedstock in light of an ongoing trade dispute with China that has been overshadowed by the country’s trade war with the US. Having lost much of its demand from China, rapeseed prices have fallen and are in […]

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Oversupply of RINs could still keep prices low despite increased blending

Oversupply of RINs could still keep prices low despite increased blending

August 26, 2019 |

In Washington, Reuters reports that RIN markets have responded positively to the news that President Trump wants to boost ethanol blending by 500 million gallons in an effort to reduce demand destruction for ethanol created by the issuance of hardship waivers by the Environmental Protection Agency, but excess RINs in the market could weigh on […]

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UK’s Crown Oil to be country’s first supplying industrial quantity of HVO

UK’s Crown Oil to be country’s first supplying industrial quantity of HVO

August 26, 2019 |

In the UK, Green Fleet reports that Crown Oil has invested GBP4 million in HVO so that it may offer the fuel as an option to its fleet customers be it for long-distance transport, agriculture or other uses in an effort to shift fuel demand towards fuels that have fewer negative impacts fuel on the […]

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RFA says documents show EPA ignored advise on small refinery waivers

RFA says documents show EPA ignored advise on small refinery waivers

August 26, 2019 |

In Washington, documents obtained by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) show that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ignored strong recommendations from within the Trump Administration to redistribute Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) blending obligations lost to small refinery exemptions in the proposed rule for 2020 Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs). According to the documents, which detail the […]

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University of Delaware leads research on use of carbon capture for high-value chemicals

University of Delaware leads research on use of carbon capture for high-value chemicals

August 26, 2019 |

In Delaware, led by the University of Delaware, researchers have made a new discovery that could further advance carbon capture and utilization and extend its promise to new industries. In the journal Nature Chemistry, Jiao and collaborators from the California Institute of Technology, Nanjing University (China), and Soochow University (China) describe how they formed carbon-nitrogen […]

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Democrat Senators write EPA demand end to hardship waivers

Democrat Senators write EPA demand end to hardship waivers

August 26, 2019 |

In Washington, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, along with Senators Tina Smith (D-MN), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Gary Peters (D-MI), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to end the harmful abuse of small refinery hardship waivers […]

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The Big Six: Trump, Biden, Warren, Klobuchar, Yang, Buttigieg score in the Digest’s Bioeconomy 2020 US Presidential Poll

The Big Six: Trump, Biden, Warren, Klobuchar, Yang, Buttigieg score in the Digest’s Bioeconomy 2020 US Presidential Poll

August 26, 2019 |

In Florida, US President Donald Trump led 19 other candidates in the first Digest Bioeconomy 2020 US Presidential Poll, gaining 31.7 percent support in the bipartisan poll which featured 18 leading Democratic candidates along with the President and his lone declared Republican challenger. Leading among Democrats were former Vice President Joe Biden at 21.1 percent, […]

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Jump on the ‘GRAIN’ Train: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Multi-Slide Guide to Yield10’s Trait Factory

Jump on the ‘GRAIN’ Train: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Multi-Slide Guide to Yield10’s Trait Factory

August 26, 2019 |

Called the “Trait Factory,” Yield10 develops high value seed yield traits for the agriculture and food industries. They developed traits for corn, soy, canola, wheat, rice and camelina, optimizing photosynthesis, carbon efficiency and genome editing to increase grain yield. Yield10 developed something many are on board with – ‘GRAIN’ also known as Gene Ranking Artificial […]

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Breath! Respiring microbes generate more energy

Breath! Respiring microbes generate more energy

August 25, 2019 |

In Denmark, researchers at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (DTU Biosustain) at the Technical University of Denmark shed light on how bacteria and baker’s yeast generate and use their energy to grow and how it is possible to evoke a shift in the metabolism from fermentation to respiration of E. coli and baker’s […]

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