“The big race is for the corn” said Julio Ferrarotti.

Throughout the world, researchers are seeking plants better adapted to stress. In the Biotech Forum, which will take place in Rosario on June 18 and 19, sponsored by Infocampo, will be presented the degree of progress that there is for the crops to have better performance in less favorable situations. Leer más »

NEXTFUEL ARGENTINA opens www.biodirectorio.com, a space for agricultural and bioenergy companies to offer their products and services; a thematic search engine of www.biodiesel.com.ar, one of the most visited sites on spanish-language about biodiesel, agriculture and renewable energy and with an excellent position in major Internet search engines as Google and Yahoo. Leer más »

Following the publication of the EPA’s draft Regulatory Impact Analysis this week which includes proposed changes to the Renewable Fuels Standards Program, the Argentine Renewable Energies Chamber expressed both concerns and optimism regarding the possible effects this will have on the export-driven Argentine biodiesel industry. Leer más »

Tunuyán, first municipality to participate in the Bioenergy Program for UNC.

Tunuyan, also participates in investigations of oilseed rape, topinambur and biomass.

The municipality supports the research and development of biodiesel with a monthly financial contribution. Besides is the only department involved in the Bioenergy Program for 2007-2010.

Tunuyan is the only department across the province participating in the Bioenergy Program 2007-2010. With a monthly financial contribution, the municipality of Tunuyan supports research and development of biodiesel. Leer más »

Argentine-Brazilian corporate meeting on bioenergy in Córdoba.

Meeting with brazilian business representatives.

On Friday May 15 will be held in Cordoba first Argentine-Brazilian corporate meeting on bioenergy, in the auditorium of the Quorum Hotel on the way to the airport.

The meeting will be attended by specialists and will aim to discuss and explain the situation of the two countries on bioenergy, identify convergences and analyze the differences, to create a common platform for development in technology, regulations, standards and business agreements in order to act in an integrated way to achieve third markets. Leer más »

It would begin with the super and common types due to the lack of the capacity to process alcohol.Â

The 5% bioethanol mix in the naphtha won’t reach to all the varieties in January of 2010 as it was foreseen, but rather it will begin with the super and ultra types due to the lack of dehydrating plants to transform the alcohol. As confirmed to La Nacion by sugar companies involved in the business and the Argentinean Sugar Center that pointed out that May 15 will conquer the term to present the projects for the bioethanol quota before the Secretary of Energy. Fernando Nebbia, president of the Argentinean Sugar Center, said: “For January there will be an important quantity of dehydrated alcohol to begin the operative with two types of naphtha: common and ultra. Leer más »

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – It’s corn planting time in the U.S. Plains, and that means Kansas corn farmer Merl “Buck” Rexford is worrying about the weather — and hoping there is enough water.

Rexford plans to start seeding his 7,000 acres near Meade, Kansas, this week and he is relishing a recent heavy snow storm that dropped several inches of much-needed moisture.

Like corn farmers throughout the United States, Rexford hopes to grow a healthy crop yielding more than 150 bushels an acre this year. Much of his crop will wind up at a nearby ethanol plant.

And that puts the 65-year-old Rexford at the center of a bitter divide over biofuels, particularly corn ethanol. Leer más »