Renewable Energy Report: July 2008 Newsletter

This is the second issue of a monthly newsletter focusing on renewable energy and U.S. agriculture. The newsletter is free of charge. The newsletter provides information and analysis from agricultural economists and others on current issues facing the emerging renewable energy industry. More information on renewable energy can be found...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter July 2008 Don Hofstrand Co-Director – Ag Marketing Resource Center Iowa State University dhof@iastate.edu (first in a series) Agriculture has traditionally had a single focus of providing food for U.S. consumers and others internationally. However, with the emergence of the bio-fuels industry, production agriculture needs to...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter July 2008 Robert Wisner Professor of Economics and Energy Economist Ag Marketing Resources Center Iowa State University rwwisner@iastate.edu Information from trade sources indicate that ethanol plants currently under construction will increase the industry’s production capacity by nearly two-thirds. Almost half of those plants have been under...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter July 2008 Eugene Takle Professor of Atmospheric Science and Professor of Agricultural Meteorology 515-294-9871 gstakle@iastate.edu Don Hofstrand Value-added agriculture specialist Co-director AgMRC Iowa State University Extension 641-423-0844 dhof@iastate.edu (Second in series) Global warming will have a profound impact on global agriculture, with yet unknown influences on...