Renewable Energy Report: October 2008 Newsletter
This is the fifth 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 October 2008 Robert Wisner Biofuels Economist Agricultural Marketing Resource Center rwwisner@iastate.edu We preface our analysis with recognition that the entire agricultural sector is experiencing serious stress and uncertainty from extreme problems that have emerged in the last month in the U.S. and global financial and energy...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter October 2008 Don Hofstrand Co-director Agricultural Marketing Resource Center dhof@iastate.edu Brazil has made great strides in running its economy on renewable energy. Renewable energy represents 46 percent of Brazil’s total annual energy supply. By comparison, renewable energy accounts for only seven percent of the U.S. annual...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter October 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 (Fifth in a Series) In the previous article we discussed the greenhouse gas emissions from corn and biomass...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter October 2008 Rodney Holcomb and Phil Kenkel Oklahoma State University A new addition to the growing biofuels resources list at AgMRC is a cellulosic ethanol feasibility template developed by agricultural economists at Oklahoma State University (OSU). The purpose of the spreadsheet-based template is to give users...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter October 2008 Robert Wisner, Biofuels Economist, Agricultural Marketing Resource Center Last month, we looked at the potential U.S. corn supply-demand and price situation if the ethanol expansion had stopped at the capacity level of 2004-05,instead of expanding by the additional 2.78 billion bushels of corn that...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter October 2008 By Jason Henderson, Vice President and Omaha Branch Executive This year’s farm incomes are expected to reach their highest levels in over three decades. Profits have soared with record crop prices, strong export demand, the booming ethanol industry, and tightening global supplies. The robust...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter October 2008 Robert Wisner, Agricultural Marketing Resource Center, rwwisner@iastate.edu The soybean balance sheet can be thought of as a commodity counter-part to a financial balance sheet that centers on the supply and demand for money that is available to a business, an individual, or other institution,...
Prices Midwest Ethanol Prices Ethanol Basis Fuel vs. Grain (annual - xls) Fuel vs. Grain (monthly - xls) Supply/Demand Corn/Ethanol Balance Sheet Soy Oil Biodiesel Balance Sheet Soybean Balance Sheet
