Drought across the United States has reduced substantially the expected yield of corn and soybean fields for the fall 2012 U.S. harvests. With reduced yield, prices have risen rapidly for these crops that are widely-used food and feed ingredients, huge…
Initial field test results GM poplars: bioethanol yield almost doubled 19/05/2011 VIB News, Belgium Nancy, France, May 19, 2011 - The yield of bio-ethanol from the wood of GM poplar trees from a VIB field trial is up to 81%…
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Vilsack clears industrial biotech cornDes Moines Register Blog.1:30 PM, Feb 11, 2011 | by Philip Brasher |Agriculture and Alternative EnergyAgriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has approved a biotech corn variety that was engineered solely for producing fuel ethanol. Companies that mill…
The Economics of Food: How Feeding and Fuelling the Planet Effects Food Prices.(Link to Amazon entry)Patrick Westhoff. FT Press ( Financial Times, Pearson Education Ltd), New Jersey 2010.ISBN – 10: 0 – 13 – 700610 – 1ISBN – 13: 978…
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Growth of biofuel industry hurt by GMO regulations: studyOctober 1, 2010 Physorg.ComFaster development of the promising field of cellulosic biofuels - the renewable energy produced from grasses and trees - is being significantly hampered by a "deep and thorny regulatory thicket"…
