Korean Firm to Invest in Coco-diesel
PHILIPPINES - A South Korean firm is to invest in a 200 tonne per day biodiesel plant in the Philippines that could export fuel to Europe.

Senate Tax Package Supports Renewable Energy
WASHINGTON - The US Senate has passed an energy tax package that contains several provisions beneficial to rural America.

Conference Yields $44 Million in Corn and DDGS Sales
CAMBODIA - U.S. corn producers scored big at the 5th Southeast Asia Agricultural Cooperators Conference in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

County Canola Dryer Starts Energy Drive
US - Snohomish County in Washington State has started drying more than 400 acres of canola seed that local farmers will turn into biodiesel for county fleet vehicles.

Renewable Fuel Corp Acquires Biodiesel Projects
INDONESIA - Renewable Fuel Corp (RFC) a North American producer and supplier of biodiesel and biodiesel blended fuels has acquired Bio Refining Industries, Inc. (BRII) which owns two...

Biofuels Companies to Clean Up Chernobyl
BELARUS - The only biofuels companies to have come up with plans to use biofuels production to remediate the lands contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have decided to pool...

Joint Venture Company Invests in Biofuels
INDIA - Bharat Renewable Energy, a joint venture between Bharat Petroleum, Nandan Biomatrix and Shapoorji Pallonji, is to invest Rs 22 billion to produce 1 million tonnes of biodiesel...

Dubbo Forum Planned for Biofuel Promotion
AUSTRALIA - Negotiations are taking place to build biofuel plants in wester New South Wales.

Cargill Creates 4,050 Jobs in France
FRANCE - US agrofood group Cargill has announced that the group has created 4,050 jobs since the inauguration of a new site on last week.

Success for Jatropha Trial
CAMBODIA - The Mong Reththy Co in Cambodia is to plant more than 100,000 hectares of jatropha next year following a successful trial in Stung Treng province.

Weekly Outlook: Factors Influencing Corn and Soybean Prices
US - Corn and soybean prices continue to be influenced by a wide array of factors, resulting in a very unstable price pattern. Over the past week, December corn futures traded in a...

US and Uganda in Biofuels Link-up
UGANDA - Creating a regulatory environment that balances Uganda’s need for food security and affordable fuel is the goal of a USTDA grant to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Deve...

$76,000 Grant for Biodiesel Plant
US - A farmers market established in the old power plant in Andalusia Alabama could soon be the base of a biodiesel plant.

Trade Mission to South America
US - Staff from Auburn University recently took part in a trade mission to South America to investigate opportunities for biofuels and agribusinesses.

Algae Breakthrough for Biofuels
IRELAND - A team of researchers from Irish biofuels company AER and the National University of Ireland in Galway (NUIG) have developed the new technology, to convert algae to commercially-viable...