Farmers are getting the best prices for corn in more than a decade amid strong demand for ethanol and feed, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Monday.
Average corn prices for the year were forecast at $2.90 to $3.30 a bushel, up 10 cents from last month’s estimate, according to the monthly crop report.
“We think about […]
A $170 million ethanol plant to be built in Wabash County is at least the sixth planned in the region.
The plant, about 40 miles southwest of Fort Wayne, is expected to open during the last half of 2008, public and company officials said at a news conference Monday.
“We are excited to move forward and pleased […]
The growth of the ethanol industry, in part, has domestic corn demand — and prices — soaring. Can growers produce enough corn to continue to feed this growing need?
It’s entirely possible, say leaders of the Iowa Corn Growers Association (ICGA) and Iowa Corn Promotion Board (ICPB). Why? The answer can be summed up in one […]
The rapid expansion of the ethanol industry is helping to boost Asian imports of distillers grain, a byproduct of the alternative fuel used as high-protein livestock feed.
The U.S. Grains Council is working to expand markets for DDGS - or dried distillers grains with solubles - in Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam and China, said Cary […]
The ethanol industry’s growing appetite for corn has pushed prices for the grain to their highest levels in a decade amid a surge that agricultural experts say could lead farmers next spring to plant their largest corn crop in 60 years.
Farmers who plant more corn in 2007, however, will be betting that the nation’s burgeoning […]
What was a distinct possibility became a firm reality yesterday when GreenField Ethanol confirmed it has started construction of a $150-million ethanol plant near the Port of Prescott in the shadow of the international bridge.
Financing is in place, technical requirements have been met, and contractors have been hired, said Bliss Baker, Greenfield vice-president of corporate […]
FOLLOWING the passage of the Biofuels Bill at both houses of Congress, independent oil firm Seaoil Petroleum Corp. has firmed up plans to put up an ethanol plant.
In an interview, Seaoil president Glenn Yu said the passage of the bill was the only thing that the oil firm was waiting for before drafting a more […]
A Denver biofuel company that’s partnering with agribusiness giant Cargill plans a $300 million public offering to fund its ethanol efforts.
The stock sale by Biofuel Energy Corp. - less than two years after its founding - is more evidence of the movement to cash in on the growing ethanol industry.
The nation’s ethanol production has nearly […]
There is a battle brewing in the Columbia County Village of Cambria where residents have been fighting for four years to keep an ethanol plant out.
Frustrated residents said they feel that no one at the county or state level is hearing their pleas, and they are quickly running out of options.
Cabbage Road, at the edge […]
The ethanol industry’s growing appetite for corn has pushed prices for the grain to their highest levels in a decade amid a surge that agricultural experts say could lead farmers next spring to plant their largest corn crop in 60 years.
Farmers who plant more corn in 2007, however, will be betting that the nation’s burgeoning […]