GLG News by Ethanol Experts (Brazil)

Would some consider this the sequel to Frankenstein as Monsanto and BASF announced this week that they are going to collaborate on R&D to bring new traits to market quickly tied to increased demand for gains and oilseeds tied to biofuels? With only a hand full of potential dancing partners in the...

La Niña could be returning to the Pacific once again. In what is becoming a rapid swing between water surface temperatures in the Pacific we are looking at a potential major change in this summer's weather. Or maybe not. According to this article, a major weather forecaster announced last week that...

The USDA's Agricultural Baseline Projections for 2007-2016, are just that, a good base to start from. These are going to be very dramatic years for the agricultural sector as biofuels and world food demand will push up prices most dramatically for corn and vegetable oils.The report lays out the USDA's...

Ernst & Young's periodic ranking has put US in the #1 spot in its  Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices. The US moved ahead of Spain on this listing that ranks the top 20 countries in the world based on their support for renewable energies.This report for Q3 2006 was released two...

It is clear that there will be a large increase in corn seeding this Spring. Much of this will come from acres that would have been planted to soybeans in a normal corn-soybean rotation. That means there will be more corn after corn planting, due to the better potential returns from corn. To be able...

There is a lot of attention to the change of corn-soybean rotation that will be occurring throughout the corn belt this year. There is another article that I just posted on what a farmer should do to get the highest yield including seed selection and additional nitrogen application. I titled it What's...

The press is starting to pay attention to corn and corn prices. Normally when a price increase hits the major newspapers it is a sign that the markets are about to turn south. In this editorial by the NYT they have most of their facts right, but maybe not their conclusion that we are going to have to...

There are going to be winners and losers in the corn ethanol industry and this article from Fortune lists several of them including ADM, VeraSun Energy, Monsanto and Burlington Northern and tax payers.The article, which appeared last week on Fortune.com via Yahoo, shows a date of 2/12/07. This shows...

This article is an interview with the author of a new book, Appetite for Profit , which is another attack on the food industry. This book is probably not going to get as much attention as "Fast Food Nation" unless there is a documentary made based on it. Nevertheless the book would appear to make for...

This article makes a couple of good points, but gets off-track, in my opinion, when the author delves into the long-term effects of the ethanol boom on the agricultural economy. > Agreed, the Brazilian ethanol industry can't be used to model where the US industry can go.> Agreed, grain based...