Renewable Energy Report: September 2008 Newsletter
This is the fourth 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 September 2008 Robert Wisner Professor of Economics and Energy Economist Ag Marketing Resources Center Iowa State University rwwisner@iastate.edu No one knows precisely what impact the rapid growth in the production of biofuels has had on corn and soybean prices, but the evidence below suggests it has...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter September 2008, Revised April 2009 Don Hofstrand Co-director, Ag Marketing Resource Center Iowa State University Extension dhof@iastate.edu (first in a series) The energy crisis of the 1970s brought about high gas prices and limited supplies that generated an intense interest in renewable fuels and weaning ourselves...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter September 2009 Eugene Takle Professor of Atmospheric Science and Professor of Agricultural Meteorology 515-294-9871 gtakle@iastate.edu Don Hofstrand Value-added agriculture specialist Co-director AgMRC Iowa State University Extension 641-423-0844 dhof@iastate.edu (Fourth in a Series) The emergence of bio-fuels such as ethanol has been touted as the answer to...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter September 2008 Robert Wisner Professor of Economics and Energy Economist Ag Marketing Resources Center Iowa State University rwwisner@iastate.edu While the U.S. public is concerned about rising food prices, the sharp escalation in gasoline prices in the past two years probably is an even bigger concern for...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter September 2008 Daniel O’Brien and Mike Woolverton Extension Agricultural Economists K-State Research and Extension Robert Wisner Biofuels Economist Ag Marketing Resource Center Iowa State University The current status and future prospects for the U.S. ethanol industry are topics of great interest to government leaders in states...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter September 2008 Robert Wisner Professor of Economics and Energy Economist Ag Marketing Resources Center Iowa State University rwwisner@iastate.edu View Soybean Balance Sheets (xls) The soybean oil-biodiesel balance sheet can be thought of as a commodity counter-part to financial balance sheets. Financial balance sheets focus on the...
More on Brazil's Ethanol Industry Ethanol's Impact on the Livestock Sector What if Ethanol Expansion Stops - Impact on Future Corn and Soybean Prices More on Food and Fuel More on Climate Change and Biofuels
