By Steve Hartig, Senior Consultant at ReCon Associates Special to The Digest This has been a dramatic time in gasoline and ethanol with demand dropping quickly due to COVID 19 and the related shutdown. It is impossible to know what is going to happen ahead but what we can do is to create some scenarios. […]
On last week’s DigestConnect webinar about the Green Recovery, Joanne Ivancic from Advanced Biofuel USA shared this illuminating presentation about the need for more education and understanding of renewable fuels. From the evidence that it’s a problem to how can we do better to ensure that renewable fuels are no longer overlooked in a Green Recovery, […]
As biology ravages the global economy, we have a once-in-a-lifetime, trillion-dollar opportunity to help shape how biology will also rebuild it, reports Synbiobeta. We can redefine the economy, supply chains, and manufacturing at local, state, national, and global levels, and bring back the millions of jobs that have been lost due to COVID-19. With California as […]
In Washington, the Renewable Fuel Standard is being besieged again, and while it is starting to feel like a Siege They Never Stop Trying and Never Works out of a Monty Python episode, industry trade associations say it is time once again to man the ramparts and pour burning oil, throw stones and otherwise defend […]
If COVID-19 has taught us anything this year, it’s that a flexible supply chain and healthy workers are needed to ensure food security. In this illuminating slide guide, ADM shares it’s Q1 accomplishments, like the ability for thousands of global colleagues to be able to work virtually in this extenuating circumstances. But that’s not all! Achieving […]
By Peter Brown, Founder and Principal of Euro Marketing Tools Special to The Digest This election cycle has confirmed that the United States’ political hopefuls have abdicated any participation, influence and presence in the climate change debate as it is being set out in the various ecosystems around the world. This is happening in the […]
The U.S. Grains Council presented findings from its 9th annual corn quality survey in this 2019/2020 Corn Export Cargo Quality Report, which is based on samples taken at the point of loading for international shipment early in the 2019/2020 marketing year. Find out what impacted the quality of the corn assembled for export early in the […]
A new technology that produces a doubling of overall biomass in algae and 40 percent in camelina has appeared on the horizon, and I’d like to draw your attention to this work in The Plant Journal and this one in Nature Research. If you’ve been a fan of the New Mexico Consortium, Dick Sayre’s algae […]
In the past 50 years, population has doubled, food and water tripled, fossil fuels quadrupled. So how do we transition to a net positive world? That’s where RSB comes in with their community, resources and sustainability standard and certification system as part of a global movement to create a world of positive impacts and a thriving planet. […]
By Nigel Davies, Insights Editor, ICIS Special to The Digest The impact of the coronavirus lockdowns on the oil, gas and chemicals industries’ integrated value chains is radically shifting relationships and profitability. It is also making planning virtually impossible, as BASF suggested last week. The environment around refining and chemical margins remains challenging, Shell CEO […]
