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Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) is slated to take over as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry next month. He played a major part in writing up the 2002 bill with a major push on renewable energy and conservation. With Collin Peterson (D-MN) slated to head the House Ag....

Monsanto's highly successful Roundup Ready soybean is finally looking at some serious competition, but not until 2009. DuPont has just announced that they will be releasing their own Roundup Ready tolerant genetically engineered soybean trait in 2009. People generally do not recognize how time consuming...

Energy Information Administration suggests the market may be understating demand for ethanol.Publicly held ethanol companies stock did not react well to EIA's outlook.How is $75 crude oil that much different to inflation than $4 to $5 corn?

Argentina is the 2nd largest corn exporter in the world, the 3rd largest exporter of soybeans and beef and a major wheat exporter. High commodity prices and a favorable exchange rate for exports have been good from the whole Argentine agriculture sector, and yet for the first time in history, major...

One of the key take away points of this article is the relationship between the stock-to-use ration and the price of corn. For the third time in the past 15 years the ratio is at or below 10%. According to the article the high of $5.54 set in July 1996 was when the ratio was at 5%. I was very glad in...

The Des Moines Register announced a major coup for the state with the announcement that Brion Cos. will convert their Voyager Ethanol plant in Emmetsburg from a 50 million-gallon-a-year dry corn ethanol plant into a 125 million-gallon-a-year cellulosic plant.This would be the first commercial cellulosic...

Corn prices have moved up dramatically during harvest this year as the balance between supply and demand has become extremely tight. As this article highlights, corn has taken over the upward leadership from wheat especially with the USDA projecting production at 10.75 bushels and ending stocks down...

Brazil has just reelected President Lula. This was without the support of the farming sector who blame him for not supporting them enough given the strong currency and bad weather during Lula's first term.Brazil faces a long road now to regain the momentum in the agricultural sector that it had just...

It seems that for everyone with an idea or a vision there is some else out there willing to find fault and try to shoot them down without providing alternatives. Sometimes, as in this article the alternative is the end of the industrial era and possibly of mankind.Another article with the same title...

We are only 2 1/2 weeks from a major election for some key federal, state and local offices in the USA, but you do not hear much in the campaigns for a major push on biofuels by the governments.This survey shows that there is major support for MORE incentives, even though oil and gasoline prices have...