This is the eighth 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 February 2009 Don Hofstrand value-added agriculture specialist co-director AgMRC Iowa State University Extension 641-423-0844 dhof@iastate.edu (first in a series) What does the upper Midwest and Great Plains need a lot of – nitrogen fertilizer. Nitrogen fertilizer is used to grow the mountains of grain for the...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter February 2009 Robert Wisner Professor of Economics and Energy Economist Ag Marketing Resources Center Iowa State University rwwisner@iastate.edu After two years of exceptional profitability and a year of low to mediocre profits, the ethanol industry entered a period of very depressed returns that began in mid-2008....
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter February 2009 Nancy M. Hodur, Research Scientist nancy.hodur@ndsu.edu 701-231-7357 Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics North Dakota State University Larry Leistritz, Professor, f.leistritz@ndsu.edu 701-231-7455 Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics North Dakota State University Expanded processing of agricultural products in rural areas has been widely pursued...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter February 2009 Daniel O’Brien and Mike Woolverton Extension Agricultural Economists K-State Research and Extension The purpose of this article is to examine the production of feed byproducts originating from wet and dry corn milling processes in the United States. Two distinct processes for processing corn are...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter February 2009 Cole Gustafson Professor, Biofuel Economics Co-Director, BioEnergy and Products Innovation Center Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics North Dakota State University cole.gustafson@ndsu.edu The grain industry is getting more questions from Japanese consumers who want to know what the carbon footprint is of the foods...
