Domestic Fuel Cast

The latest edition of Domestic Fuel Cast listens in on some of the conversation at this week's Farm Foundation "Transition to a Bioeconomy: Global Trade and Policy Issues" conference.

This latest edition of Domestic Fuel Cast we look at an exciting new development from the Indiana Soybean Alliance that might just put to rest some of the complaints about biodiesel's tendency to gel at extremely cold temperatures.

This latest edition of Domestic Fuel Cast communicates some important information for those who communicate the story of renewable energy.

This edition of the DomesticFuel Cast we look at Destiny, Florida - a community striving to be the nation's first eco-sustainable city.

In this DomesticFuel Cast we hear reaction to the Sandia National Laboratory’s press conference on the feasibility of producing 90 billion gallons of ethanol from sustainable biomass annually by the year 2030. While many in the renewable energy business are excited about this latest information from the U.S. Department of Energy, amazingly, a group of environmentalists from the Environmental Working Group quickly attacked the findings.

In this DomesticFuel Cast, we hear from Jeff Broin, CEO of POET, and Bill Schafer, senior vice president of business development Range Fuels.

In this DomesticFuel Cast, we hear from Neal Conklin, President of Farm Foundation and Wally Tyner, Professor of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University.

Record rain and flooding has left acres of ravaged farmland in Missouri, Indiana and Iowa this month. The Iowa Farm Bureau has estimated crop losses in that state alone to amount to $3 billion. But, leaders of the Iowa Corn Growers Association and the Iowa Corn Promotion Board say though they expect corn and soybean crops to take a hit, their expectations for the 2008 harvest are far from bleak. Some even expect the state to still harvest its third most productive yield.

LifeLine Foods sells ethanol, but ethanol is just one of many products the company produces. The St. Joseph, MO-based corn milling plant started off as a manufacturer of snack foods in 2001. Today, LifeLine's identity is continually evolving. The 51 percent farmer-owned company is committed to innovation and is now partnered with ICM, Inc, a world leader in ethanol facility design and engineering, in the production of ethanol.

In this DomesticFuel Cast, we hear from several of the witnesses who testified in support of the RFS at a recent hearing of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.