US Ethanol Policy Blamed for High Feed Costs
CANADA - A market analyst with the Guelph, Ontario based George Morris Centre suggests US policies surrounding ethanol are the biggest factor driving up feed costs in North America, writes Bruce Cochr...

EPA Decision on E15 Disappoints Pork Producers
US - The National Pork Producers Council on Friday, 21 January, expressed strong disappointment with the Obama administration’s decision to allow a broader range of vehicles to use gasoline blended with...

CME: Significance of Latest USDA Reports for Corn
US - "How significant was yesterday’s USDA reports and the resulting two-day move for Corn Futures?" ask Steve Meyer and Len Steiner.

Pigs Bring Taranaki Pig Farmer National Award
NEW ZEALAND - Taranaki pig farmer Steve Lepper has found an original source of electricity – his own pigs.

EUROTIER - Sustainability: Fashion or Fact?
GERMANY - The International EuroTier Pig Event took place yesterday with the hot topic of sustainability, writes Jackie Linden, editor of ThePigSite.

Harper Adams Pioneers Bioreduction of Pig Carcases
UK - Researchers at Harper Adams University College are hoping to develop a new method of on-farm storage and bioreduction that can be used in the disposal of fallen pig carcases.

Weekly Outlook: Corn - More on Ethanol and Exports
US - Corn prices continue to be supported by expectations that the USDA will reduce the forecast size of the 2010 US crop and by a rapid pace of ethanol production, writes Darrel Good, Agricultural Economist...

New Proposal from Ethanol Industry Concerns AMI
US - AMI has joined a number of agriculture associations in expressing serious concerns over a new proposal from the ethanol industry that would extend the expiring ethanol blenders credit and import tariff...

Domestic Livestock Rations Contain More DDGS
US - This year, for the first time, distillers grains will displace more than one billion bushels of corn in domestic feed rations, according to estimates from the ProExporter Network.

NPPC: EPA's Decision to Increase Ethanol Blend Rate
US - The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) Ethanol Task Force Chairman Randy Spronk yesterday expressed concern about the US Environmental Protection Agency's decision to increase the ethanol blend...

Homes in North Carolina to Get Pig-Power
NORTH CAROLINA, US - The state's utilities are buying pig manure to produce power.

Keep Updated on Cockle Park's Anaerobic Digester
UK - BPEX has launched a photo diary so progress can be followed on a new farm-scale anaerobic digestion (AD) unit being installed at the University of Newcastle.

Pig Manure into Electricity in North Carolina
US - Hoffland Environmental Inc is introducing its technology to generate electricity from pig manure with the first one-megawatt facility planned for North Carolina near the city of Goldsboro.

Feeding Glycerol Improves Pork Belly Firmness
US - Feeding pigs eight per cent crude glycerol throughout the growing-finishing period resulted in a three per cent improvement in growth rate and a two per cent depression in gain efficiency, according...

Ag Minister Urged to Look at Anaerobic Digestion
IRELAND - Anaerobic digestion systems using poultry and pig manure could generate energy and boost incomes.

Pigs' Manure to Fuel Mong Reththy Farm
CAMBODIA - The Mong Reththy Group has signed a memorandum of understanding to build a biogas-generation plant fuelled by pig manure at its farm in Preah Sihanouk province.

Work Commences on Harper Biodigester
UK - Work starts this week on a £3m anaerobic digester at Harper Adams University College's Shropshire campus.

EFSA: Cautious Approval of Manure Lime Treatment
EU - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) judges that the treatment of dry pig or poultry manure batch-wise with quick lime and heated was effective in destroying pathogens but it warns that its opinion...

Study on Rapeseed, Sunflower for Fuel, Feed
SPAIN - The oil extracted from oleaginous plants can be used as a fuel for agricultural vehicles without any reduction in their performance – thus enabling farmers to have greater energy self-suffic...

Groups Call for End of Ethanol Subsidies
US - The nation’s largest livestock and poultry trade associations have asked the Senate leadership to allow a 30-year-old tax credit and a protective tariff for ethanol to expire as scheduled at the...

Realising the Potential of Anaerobic Digestion
UK - Climate Change Minister Greg Barker and Environment Minister Lord Henley yesterday jointly chaired an Anaerobic Digestion Round Table with industry.

Hog Producers Observe DDGS Production Process
US - As hog producers from Manitoba, Canada, travelled to Des Moines, Iowa, for the World Pork Expo, 8-12 June, they visited a South Dakota ethanol plant along the way.

Hog Producers View US DDGS Production Process
US - As hog producers from Manitoba, Canada, traveled to Des Moines, Iowa, for the World Pork Expo June 8-12, they visited a South Dakota ethanol plant along the way.

Circular Economy Helps Bring Big Cash to Ankang
CHINA - Ankang, located in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi province, has blazed a new trail in protecting the local environment and making the city prosper by developing five green industries covering...

NZ Pork Moves Forward on Biogas
NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand Pork has completed the latest stage in a project to generate biogas from pig manure.

Anaerobic Digestion: Future of Renewable Energy?
UK - Across Europe there are more than 4,000 anaerobic digester plants, but only some 25 of those are in the UK.

Meat, Poultry Groups Urge End To Ethanol Subsidies
US - American Meat Institute (AMI), joined by national industry trade associations including the National Turkey Federation, the National Chicken Council and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association,...

Feed Research Finds Fractions of DDGS Favourable
CANADA - Pilot scale processing of the main co-product of prairie ethanol production, wheat distillers dried grain with solubles (DDGS), has yielded different fractions targeted for monogastric and ruminant...

DDGS Availability Offers Attractive Feed Cost Savings
CANADA - A partner with Gowans Feed Consulting says pork producers in regions closest to the ethanol plant have the greatest opportunity to save money by including dried distillers grains with solubles...

Ethanol Mandate Creates Chance of Corn Price Spike
US - If the US corn industry experiences a weather-induced shortfall that typically has a 10 per cent chance of happening in any given year, the price of a bushel of corn could rise to more than $7.