World Agricultural Production - October 2008
The current credit crisis could be starting to affect farmers in Brazil with corn production down this month and, according to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service World Agricultural Production report, the amount of credit available to Brazilian farmers...

Oilseeds World Markets and Trade Report October 2008
While Brazil is seeing a domestic growth in soybean meal and oil, because of a growth in production of pig meat and poultry, Argentina has seen its exports fall, according to the Oilseeds World Market and Trade Report by the USDA Foreign Agricultural...

Giant Grass Offers Clues to Growing Corn in Cooler Climes
The genetics of a grass with a long growing season could hold the clue to developing a new strain of corn, according to research at the University of Illinois.

Impact of Biofuels on Meat Production
The biofuels industry is a policy driven industry that is influenced by the need to reduce the use of energy resources, agricultural support and environmental issues, writes Chris Harris Senior Editor, TheBioenergySite.

Global Prospects for Biodiesel
Biodiesel, defined as the methyl ester of natural fatty acids produced via transesterification of fats and oils, is made mainly from renewable biological resources (vegetable or animal fats and oils) and is therefore an ecologically friendly alternative...

Sequenced Photosynthetic Bacterium Could Be New Energy Source
US - A team of researchers headed by biologists at Washington University in St. Louis has sequenced the genome of a unique bacterium that could be an important source of renewable energy.

Coconut Oil as Diesel Fuel vs Cocobiodiesel
RAFAEL S. DIAZ is the Executive Director of the Philippine Biodiesel Association; Managing Director of the Asian Institute of Petroleum Studies, Inc. (AIPSI); Technical Consultant of Chemrez Inc.; US BioSolar Group; USAID- SEDP ( “ Clean Cities Program);...

Isn’t it Good – Norwegian Wood?
While the Norwegian company "Norske Skog" is struggling with unprofitable paper production and trees are rotting from the roots up, the world is researching alternatives to petrol. Scientists believe we should put wood chips in the tank.

Oilseeds World Markets and Trade Report
China's soybean imports are stagnant despite record consumption levels as production rebounds, according to the Oilseeds World Markets and Trade report from the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.

Biofuels - Impact of Selected Farm Bill Provisions
By the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI)of the University of Missouri.

Biofuels: Look Toward Future Feedstocks
By the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program.

Aquatic Biofuels as an Alternative
Aquatic resources to produce clean energy could be part of the answer to meeting the world's energy needs and demands, writes TheBioenergySite Senior Editor Chris Harris.

Colombia Biofuels Annual Report 2008
The Colombian government issued its policy framework for biofuels production and announced it will temporarily import 500,000 liters of ethanol per day to blend with gasoline to reduce its gasoline consumption and to ease gasoline price increases according...

France Biofuels Update 2008
This report analyses the current state of the French biofuels sector. Prepared by Marie-Cecile Henard, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.

Biofuels: Look Toward Future Feedstocks
“Bioenergy will be the biggest change in agriculture in our history,” said Gale Buchanan, USDA’s Undersecretary of Agriculture for Research, Education and Economics in 2007.