In Iowa, Reuters reports that ahead of the Iowa caucuses, farmers remain angry at how President Trump has handled ethanol policy, especially the issuance of hardship waivers for small oil refineries that led to billions of gallons of demand destruction that wasn’t satisfactorily resolved with the 2020 renewable volume obligation. As such, Democrats may have […]
By Matthew L. Gibson, Ph.D., Lee Enterprises Consulting, Inc. Special to The Digest “I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now” – Joni Mitchell I’ve been in the ethanol industry, directly, for about half of my career. The other half has been on “the other side”; that is, in the production of human food – […]
The Digest published today a 2020 Deal Review and Outlook Bioeconomy M&A visual guide that looks at the slurry of recent mergers and acquisitions in the bioeconomy like Lygos and Librede, NuSeed and Agrisoma, FinCo Fuels and GoodFuels, The Andersons and Marathon Petroleum, Aemetis and Goodland Fuels, and more. In today’s Digest, find out which ones […]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s Bioenergy Technology Incubator 2 project is looking at how to directly produce ‘drop in’ ready biofuel (ethyl or methyl laurate) by cyanobacteria using CO2, water, and light as the main inputs. Check out the latest results of this project like the successful production and excretion of methyl […]
In Massachusetts, the global performance running and lifestyle brand Saucony aired a commercial during the Super Bowl to debut plans for its first biodegradable shoe, now in development − a major announcement that reinforces the brand’s commitment to sustainability and goodness. Saucony’s Super Bowl spot begins with a rhetorical question: “What if the shoes we […]
While some have abandoned their healthier eating New Year’s Resolutions, there is still a growing global consumer population demanding healthier food and Calyxt is working on making that happen. Calyxt develops healthier specialty food ingredients, like heart healthy oils and high fiber wheat, by leveraging cutting edge science to develop food crops through gene editing […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that increasingly tight rapeseed supply has been driving producer prices, especially since November 2019. Ex-farm prices for rapeseed have risen since the beginning of the 2019/20 marketing year and significantly so over the past three months. Climbing EUR 32 per tonne from EUR 366 per tonne as at the beginning of […]
In Washington, D.C., ethanol production shifted lower by 20,000 barrels per day (b/d), or 1.9%, to a twelve-week low of 1.029 million b/d—equivalent to 43.22 million gallons daily, according to EIA data analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association. The four-week average ethanol production rate decreased 0.8% to 1.059 million b/d, equivalent to an annualized rate […]
In California, the California Energy Commission awarded Aemetis’s subsidiary, Aemetis Biogas LLC, a $4.1 million grant under the CEC’s Low Carbon Fuel Production Program to construct a biogas upgrading facility. The biogas upgrading facility will convert dairy biogas to renewable natural gas (RNG) as a final processing step after biogas is delivered via pipeline from […]
In Colorado, Cast Iron Design collaborated with Living Ink to print 8,000 copies of Patagonia’s Boulder Guide Book using a black pigment ink made with algae. The algae ink is made using a thermal procedure to convert the algae into a dark pigment, then is combined with vegetable oil and other additives to create the […]
