Increased demand for corn for ethanol production has helped push grain prices to record levels. This has increased …

continue to be important feedstocks for ethanol and biodiesel production, but cellulose feedstocks (agricultural crop residues …

The feasibility of integrating ethanol production into an existing sugar mill was analyzed by a stochastic spreadsheet … model. As the price of corn continues to rise, ethanol producers will eventually need to look at other feedstock … alternatives. Sugarcane has been proven to work well in the production of ethanol in Brazil. The results indicated existing U …

projects. The U.S. ethanol industry has been growing rapidly, and biodiesel production is poised for similar growth. Producer … and availability. The rapidly increasing size and scale of ethanol and biodiesel plants make it difficult for producers to …

This study summarizes research on farm-, local-, regional-, and macro-level economic effects of ethanol production …. Given current production levels, the ethanol production industry annually employees approximately 3,500 workers, pays out … government incentive payments. Projections for a 60 million gallon per year ethanol plant indicate an annual increase in corn …

U.S. ethanol production capacity increased more than threefold between 2002 and 2008. We study the effect of this … growth on corn acreage. Connecting annual changes in county-level corn acreage to changes in ethanol plant capacities, we … 500 acres and to increase acreage in surrounding counties up to almost 300 miles away. All ethanol plants are estimated to …

First-generation grain ethanol biofuel has affected the historical excess capacity problem in U.S. agriculture. Second …-generation cellulosic ethanol biofuel has had difficulty achieving cost-competitiveness. Third-generation drop-in biofuels are under …

. Factors driving higher commodity prices are tight global supplies and increased demand of corn ethanol in the short term … corn ethanol, primarily because of high oil prices. Higher oil prices also increase fuel and energy costs, which increase …

new trend toward corn oil extraction in ethanol plants. At one extreme, one scenario eliminates all support to the biofuel … sector when the energy price is low, while the other extreme assumes no distribution bottleneck in ethanol demand growth when … the energy price is high. The third scenario considers a pure market force driving ethanol demand growth because of the …