The ethanol plants dry conventional corn but so far don't dry ... Syngenta puts the technology into branded non-Enogen form. Palm said growers must buy a bag of "branded" or non-Enogen corn ...

But now, with more ethanol plants using dry-grinding methods, the DDGs, germ and fiber fractions are generated before—rather than after—corn sugars are fermented into ethanol. Determining how ...

The federal mandate, which passed in 2007, generated another demand sector for corn, a major source of ethanol. Ethanol plants popped up ... a lot of equity sunk into those irrigated fields ...

But it has been difficult to reliably mass-produce the enzymes, then profitably convert cellulose into ethanol. A series of cellulose plants proposed ... lands are too dry in the summer to support ...

Nationally, about 5 billion bushels of corn go into ethanol production ... get $60 to $70 for each bone-dry ton of stover. Environmentalists worry that too much crop residue could be removed ...

This is particularly true for drought-plagued areas of Kansas and Nebraska, both of which are cashing in on the ethanol boom. Corn is a thirsty crop ... caps have been put into effect.

Today many biofuel refineries operate for only seven months each year, turning freshly harvested crops into ethanol and biodiesel ... produces 13% oil by dry weight, 8% of which is the kind ...

Biofuel supporters have called for incentives to blend more ethanol into gasoline ... be located in dry areas that can’t grow food.) It’s clear, Kartha says, that relying on crops to fuel ...

This approach could draw states outside of the Midwest into the biofuels ... be planting new energy crops. Just this month Broin Companies, the biggest dry-mill ethanol producer in the U.S ...

April 1 (Reuters) - Archer Daniels Midland said on Thursday it would restart ethanol production at two of its U.S. corn dry mills this ... blended into gasoline, is set to rise as people are ...

In the US, about 200 ethanol plants consume 35% of the annual corn crop, yielding about 53 billion L, which goes into gas tanks at around 10.5% by volume. Other regions blend at higher or lower rates.