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Canada to subsidize farmers to participate in biodiesel plant

The Canadian Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry announced a $638,599 subsidy to build a new biodiesel plant in Alberta that will cost 8 million dollars (Canadian). This aid more than doubles the 275,000 dollars Canadian farmers were already investing in the plant. This subsidy is set in the Federal Investment Initiative for Eco-agricultural in biofuels (IIEB). It seems that the Canadian government has decided to obtain results in the biofuel industry useful for farmers. The plant will not only produce 19 million liters of biodiesel ... Read more →

American sugar farmers become players in ethanol Lascelles Linton

The Midwest is the new Middle East. We have talked about farming before and even mentioned how the farm bill helped ethanol to the tune of billions. In 2008, sugar farmers become players in ethanol. ...

Insurance companies steadily rolling out green machine discounts Derrick Y. Noh

In a recent press release, Travelers Insurance company announced that New Jersey is the latest state to receive their 10 percent discount for customers who own a hybrid vehicle. Now at 39 states, ...

U.S. sugar tariffs may prove saving grace to South American corn growers Joel Arellano

As Autoblog Green has previously reported, U.S. tariffs on sugar has effectively barred Brazil and other nations with their less expensive and more efficient sugar-based ethanol from competing in the ...

Ohio's biodiesel harvest Joel Arellano

Sibling blog Blogging Ohio provided no less than three news pieces on our favorite topic, biodiesel. The first covers the ASAlliance Biofuels company as it continues its progress to build a $120 ...

Midwest farmers and E85, a symbiotic relationship 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Farmers in the American Midwest have a responsibility to grow produce. For years they've been turning out millions of pounds of corn and soybeans and wheat. Today, of course, they also play a key role in the production of much of the ethanol produced in this country. And, as this article in Motor ...

Ethanol eating up 20 percent of American corn 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Next year, twenty percent of the corn grown in the United States will be turned into ethanol, according to this article from Reuters. The increase in ethanol production (ethanol will take 2.15 billion bushels of this year's corn crop as opposed to 1.6 billion bushels from last year) will also drive ...


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