LifeLine Foods Inc. has received the Safe Quality Food program certification, giving it a boost as it moves forward following a financial restructuring. The St. Joseph, Mo.-based 50 MMgy ethanol producer also manufactures a line of food products.
Across the road from Greenfield Ethanol-Chatham, construction on Truly Green greenhouses is ongoing. The innovative project will utilize the waste heat and CO2 from the 195 MMly ethanol plant in Chatham, Ontario, Canada.
Japanese imports of U.S. dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) have increased fairly steadily since 2004, reaching an all-time high in 2012, according to a chart from U.S. Grains Council.
Germany-based enzyme developer Direvo Industrial Biotechnology GmbH has announced the successful scale-up of its BluZy-D and BluZy-P enzymes in collaboration with researchers at Iowa State University.
Investors or a buyer are being sought for Amaizeingly Green LP, which produces ethanol, pet food ingredients, livestock feed and fertilizer. The company idled ethanol production in July but is continuing to produce fertilizer and some animal feed.
A team of Mexican scientists recently published the results of a study that aimed to determine the optimum organic loading rate for operating an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor to generate biogas using waste from sugarcane ethanol production.
Saying ethanol has been demonized for too long, Orrie Swayze, a farmer from Wilmot, S.D., has sent a letter to the editor to a number media outlets offering a new perspective, which he summarizes as "Ethanol doubles corn's food production."
A distillers grains nutrient survey by the University of Minnesota Animal Science Department shows some change from a similar one done 10 years ago, although perhaps not as much as might be expected, given the growth of corn oil extraction.
The Andersons Inc. has released financial results for the third quarter of 2012. For its ethanol group, The Andersons reported an operating loss, but noted in its filing that service income and income from coproducts, partially offset lower margins.
Pacific Ethanol Inc. recently announced it would add corn oil extraction technology to one of its ethanol plants and, separately, that it had secured a new $10 million revolving line of credit from its existing lenders.
Multiple revenue streams lessen impact of ethanol prices
For some, it's all too easy to lose sight of the significant contributions made by ethanol's corn coproducts used as feed ingredients, RFA's Geoff Cooper told attendees of the 2012 Export Exchange, held in Minneapolis Oct. 22 to 24.
The 2012 Export Exchange drew more than 200 international attendees from more than 30 countries. The event, put on by RFA and U.S. Grains Council, ran Oct. 22 to Oct. 24 in in Minneapolis.
The U.S. Grains Council on Oct. 23 said it was pleased about the official approval of the Syngenta corn variety MIR 162 Agrisure Vipterra in the European Union, opening the way for exports of DDGS.
Microbes are working away in an Iowa State University laboratory to ferment biofuels from the sugar and acetate produced by rapidly heating biomass such as corn stalks and sawdust. But it's not an easy job for E. coli and C. reinhardtii.
Poultry feeding trials will be underway this month on distillers grains produced using a enzyme being introduced by Cologne, Germany-based Direvo Industrial Biotechnology GmbH. Its BluZy-D enzyme substantially improves the nutritional value of DDGS.
A study of the impact of a possible renewable fuel standard waiver concluded that corn prices would only be reduced between 46 and 48 cents per bushel and that, in some cases, the price of distillers grains and soybean meal would actually increase.
The U.S. Grains Council has released a third edition of A Guide to Distiller's Dried Grains with Solubles. The third edition is greatly expanded, and offers new chapters and expanded feeding sections provide greater detail in feeding methods.
Small American companies are directing the global algae industry's commercialization approach. With Big Oil, Big Food and big money behind them, U.S. algae startups continue to scale up, build out, and tap into the infrastructure of industrial hosts.
Coproducts are becoming an increasingly important factor in ethanol plant profitability, according to the third annual benchmarking report released Sept. 18 by Christianson & Associates PLLP. The report addresses 2011 and the first half of 2012.
December futures prices for corn have declined to $7.40 a bushel from a high of $8.38 on Aug. 21. Distillers grains cash prices, which track corn prices, are down too, from an average of $299 per ton during the week of Aug. 10, to $286 on Sept. 14.
After a three and a half year effort, the U.S. Grains Council, in cooperation with USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service in Algeria, has successfully influenced the removal of the value added tax (VAT) and custom tax on all feed imports in Algeria.
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