In Washington, the National Corn Growers Association has caled on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final rule on “Waters of the U.S.” The NCGA’s concerns were exacerbated when it became known that the Corps of Engineers, which had been partnering with EPA in the process, expressed significant reservations on the science and legality of the […]
Future Farm, Future Crop: Part 5 of 5. What happens when the rain moves, as it already is moving? Are farms in the right places? Are cities? Are the rivers and lakes? If you haven’t noticed lately, the rain is moving. It’s not raining exactly where it used to, the way it used to. So […]
A proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to change ethanol blending rules would significantly increase carbon emissions to the equivalent of adding nearly one million more passenger vehicles on the road, according to an analysis conducted by the Energy Resources Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The findings come in the wake […]
By Tim Sklar, special to The Digest A series of articles that recently appeared in last month in Biofuels Digest addressing the continued struggle to increase renewable fuels plant capacity to support anticipated advanced renewable fuels requirements. Also appearing in The Digest in late July were excerpts from a speech given by a CEO of […]
As AgTech software-as-a-service deploys, and Farm Belt job counts related directly to farming prepare to fall — how will agriculture and industrial biotech command the attention they need? Over at Monsanto, they speak in terms of reaching 300 bushels per acre in corn yields, and all this week we have been looking at an explosion of agricultural […]
DYSTOPIA. As automation arrives in force (and we mean, in force) — who votes for farmers when there are no farmers to vote? Are there downsides for feedstocks and supply chain if a technology wave goes wrong? “Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled […]
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Part II: UTOPIA? The Crop and Soil Technology Revolution, and what’s sizzling in drones, robotics and analytics. “They have built farm-houses over the whole country, which are well contrived and furnished with every necessary…those who live on the farms are never ignorant of agriculture, and commit no fatal errors, such as causing a scarcity of corn.” […]
In Denmark, Novozymes announced that sales grew by 5% organically and by 15% in DKK compared with 1H 2014. EBIT grew by 12%, and the EBIT margin was 27.2%. Adjusting for the one-time impact from The BioAg Alliance in Q1 2014, EBIT grew by ~20%, and the EBIT margin expanded by ~1 percentage point compared […]
As America’s farmers hit retirement age and technology options explode, what comes next? The Digest commences a five-part series today. The average age of the US farmer reached 58.3 years in the USDA’s 2012 Census of Agriculture. For sure, farmers have been older than the general population for some time. Why is it becoming important now? […]
