[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTqQr-hFaGU[/embedyt] The Digest amongst other outlets is live streaming a rally on Saturday March 10th at 12pm US Central time. The event features Bill Couser and other Iowa farmers, POET Biorefining General Manager Bill Howell, community members, and others. As the organizers note, “We are sending a message to President Trump. Keep your promise to […]
In California, Rennovia has ceased operations, after the company failed to raise sufficient financing from investors and/or strategic partners to advance its pilot-scale technology to first commercial production. The bulk of the IP assets have been sold and the company’s physical assets are currently in liquidation. The company had developed what is widely considered to be […]
In California, the new AgFunder AgriFood Tech Investing Report 2017, tracking agrifood tech investment that has reached $10.1 billion across 924 deals, a 29% year-over-year increase in funding volume. Overall deal activity actually declined but larger, later stage deals pushed up the total in what looks like a new normal for venture-backed agrifood tech. Farm […]
In Iowa, the state has added a dozen new E15 stations. Drivers can now buy the fuel at 158 fueling stations statewide. Iowa-based Casey’s General Store added the most new stations, including locations in Sioux Center, Akron, Cedar Rapids, and Lone Tree. Kum & Go, Kwik Star, and Key Cooperative each added two new stations […]
In Washington, managers at 150 biofuel production centers across the heartland sent a letter to President Donald Trump, urging the White House to “stand strong in defense of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).” In it, they directly address the campaign waged by Texas Senator Ted Cruz to “cut, cap, or eliminate” the market for U.S. […]
In California, the National Corn Growers Association named Vertimass LLC as one of six awardees of the “Consider Corn Challenge: New Uses for Field Corn as Feedstock for Making Sustainable Chemicals” Competition. This prestigious recognition was announced at the Commodity Classic, “Grow Beyond 2018,” Conference in Anaheim, CA on February 28, 2018. Nine Sigma launched […]
In Kansas, ICM and The Andersons are partnering to own and construct ELEMENT, LLC, a 70 MGY bio-refinery located in Colwich, Kansas. This strategic collaboration will build and operate the most advanced ethanol plant in the world featuring ICM’s cutting edge technologies. The combination of ICM’s next-generation technologies, the merchandising, risk management and logistics expertise of […]
In Washington, according to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association, US ethanol production averaged 1.057 million barrels per day (b/d)—or 44.39 million gallons daily. That is up 12,000 b/d from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production was unchanged at 1.046 million b/d for an annualized rate of 16.04 billion […]
In Washington, a study from the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University found that action to cap Renewable Identification Number (RIN) prices in exchange for an RVP waiver allowing year-round sale of E15 would result in reduced ethanol consumption, a drop in corn prices, and an effective cut of 5% to […]
In Washington, more than 200 companies and trade associations today wrote House and Senate Agriculture Committee leaders, urging them “to reauthorize and maintain stable mandatory funding for energy title programs in the next farm bill reauthorization.” The letter, organized by the Agriculture Energy Coalition, states, “For more than 15 years, the farm bill energy title […]
