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Corn surplus melts away (Pioneer Press) This year, agriculture's newest magic trick is its vanishing act, as a once-suffocating surplus of corn slowly shrinks away. Wanna know the secret? It's ethanol. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said U.S. corn stocks heading into the fall harvest were down 7 percent from last year. That's not an earth-shaking shift, but coming after the two biggest corn harvests in U.S. history, news that stockpiles are shrinking, not growing, signals the beginning of a new era. Schizophrenic biofuels section in otherwise good renewable-energy ... (Grist Magazine) You have to replace on the world market every grain or bean you stop exporting and instead feed to an American car. Regardless of what others were using that grain for, the only way for other farmers on the planet to fill that hole is to grow more crops and the only way to grow more crops is to clear more land and the only land left to clear are rainforest carbon sinks and other assorted ecosystems. A Call for Domestic Renewable Energy (Washington Post) America's energy economy is changing. Tough challenges - from global warming to sustained high oil prices - will be addressed in coming years, either through proactive policies and investment in clean technology, or through neglect, wishful thinking and ad hoc decisions that leave our economy and our planet less well off. Biofuels seen transforming EU farm markets (ABC News) A sharp rise in the use of food crops to produce biofuels will have a big impact on European agricultural markets, John Townend of Arkady Feed UK Ltd said on Wednesday.

Biofuels look to the next generation (BBC News) Biofuels are being hailed by politicians around the globe as a salvation from the twin evils of high oil prices and climate change. The boom in biofuels in the US stems from President Bush's drive to reduce dependence on imports of foreign oil; in Europe it has a more environmental dimension. Buying into Biodiesel (The State) Concerned about the cost and pollution of traditional fuel, city administrator Mark Williams wants to run Forest Acres' vehicles off soybeans. Using B20 - a blend of 80 percent diesel and 20 percent biodiesel, usually made from soybeans - would reduce air pollutants and result in quieter running engines, Williams told City Council members this month. Brazil banks on biodiesel as the next big thing in green energy (DetNews.com) For the better part of his 64 years, Sebastian Luis de Sousa has scratched a meager living in the paprika-red soil of central Brazil. So when offered a chance to grow castor beans to produce an alternative fuel called biodiesel, the rawboned father of nine reckoned he had nothing to lose. Engineering new energy (Grist Magazine) One of the major stumbling blocks to efficient production of biofuels is the conversion of bulky biomass into ethanol. GM bacteria that can condense this complex process into a single multi-course meal have been in the works for some time already. Click here for yesterday's news Click for this page's permanent location

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