Carbon Market Opportunities for Agriculture
Carbon credits generated by agriculture are a relatively new commodity according to Dr Dave Beede and Dr Wendy Powers of Michigan State University in the latest MSU Pork Quarterly.

First Phase of Green Pig Project Completed
CHINA - Residents of Nanmeng village hailed the completion of a training center as a success in the Monsanto Green Village charity programme. Courses have been given in pig production, and a biogas system...

Super-Heated Steam Improves Drying of DDGS
CANADA - A researcher with the University of Manitoba says superheated steam can be used to improve the safety and effectiveness of drying dried distillers grains with solubles, writes Bruce Cochrane....

Report Evaluates Intelligent Use of Manure
US - The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to evaluate the role of animal manure as a source of fertilizer, and its other uses.

Sen Webb Wants Study Done of Ethanol Blend Impact
US - Senator Jim Webb (D-VA), along with 20 other Senators, wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Tuesday to request more comprehensive testing on ethanol prior to raising the ratio that can be mixed...

Nineteen Digesters Operating on US Pig Farms
US - As of February 2009, AgSTAR estimates that there are 125 farm-scale digesters operating at commercial livestock farms in the United States. Six of these installations are systems that provide manure...

Energy from Pig Slurry Helps Fight Climate Change
NETHERLANDS - The 2,700 pigs on the farm that John Horrevorts manages yield more than ham and bacon. A biogas plant makes enough electricity from their waste to run the farm and feeds extra wattage into...

DDGS Scores Well in Canadian Swine Rations
CANADA - Feeding high levels of distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS) is not only proving to reduce feed costs for Canadian swine producers, but is also lending to "excellent" growth performance,...

Weekly Roberts Report
US - Agricultural US Commodity Market Report by Mike Roberts, Commodity Marketing Agent, Virginia Tech.

Weekly Outlook: Crop Markets React to Swine Flu
US - In the first trading session following the announcement of incidences of swine flu in Mexico and the United States, corn, soybean, and wheat futures declined sharply, writes Darrel Good, Extension...

New Biogas Generator Helps Farmers
PHILIPPINES - The government is urging pig and poultry farmers to adapt gas-fed generators to run on biogas, and simple technology is already available for the conversion.

Swine Producers Increase Overall Capacity
VIET NAM - The US Grains Council has been working in the Vietnamese swine industry in order to expand the use of US feed grains and their co-products.

Practical Application of DDGS in Feed Under Study
JAPAN - Distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS), a co-product of US ethanol production, is a valuable feed ingredient the US Grains Council has been working to promote in Japan and around the wo...

Biofuel Byproducts Both Economic and Environmental
US - Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists of the USDA have found environmentally and economically sound uses for the byproducts of biofuel production.

NPPC Insists that Ethanol Expansion be Studied
US - With US pork producers still smarting because of high feed-grain prices, the National Pork Producers Council has insisted that the Obama administration study the economic impact of an expansion of...

Weekly Outlook: Pressure for 2009 Growing Season
US - The USDA’s 31 March Prospective Plantings report revealed producer intentions to reduce corn acreage and to marginally increase soybean acreage in 2009. That report pointed to the potential...

DDGS Offers Potential in Swine Rations
CANADA - Research underway at the University of Manitoba suggests distillers dried grains with solubles have the potential to play an important role in swine nutrition, writes Bruce Cochrane.

Joules Before Swine
US - Family pig farms used to be as much a part of the old South as homemade sausage and red-eye gravy. What's left of swine farming in the Southeast today, however, has gone corporate — generating larger...

Weekly Roberts Report
US - Agricultural US Commodity Market Report by Mike Roberts, Commodity Marketing Agent, Virginia Tech.

Tools to Target DDGS to Swine Nutrient Requirements
CANADA - Research being conducted at the University of Manitoba will help swine nutritionists better target the nutrients contained in the by-products of ethanol production to the nutritional requirements...

Nutritional Contents of DDGS Characterised
CANADA - Research underway at the University of Manitoba will help livestock nutritionists maximize the nutritional value of the by-products of ethanol production, writes Bruce Cochrane.

Weekly Outlook: Corn Consumption
US - The USDA’s updated projections of consumption of US corn during the current marketing year serve as a reminder of the central role that market size will play over the next several months, writes Darrel...

Market Preview: Patience – Spring is Coming!
US - Weekly US Market Preview provided by Steve R. Meyer, Ph.D., Paragon Economics, Inc.

NPPC Attacks Ethanol Support Measures
US - The National Pork Producers Council is to oppose US government moves giving extra support to the production of ethanol from corn and to ethanol producers.

New Production Technologies Improve DDGS Quality
CANADA - Researchers with the University of Manitoba are finding new technologies for producing ethanol from grain results in higher quality co-products, writes Bruce Cochrane.