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BioFuelNet has signed an agreement with Air Canada and Airbus to help them find the most promising biofuels for aviation. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
W-Madison chemists have identified an approach to use oxygen gas to convert lignin into a replacement for fossil fuels. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
A new map of the algae industry published online by the Algae Biomass Organization shows production facilities and research projects in North America. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Researchers are looking to duckweed as a cheap and sustainable source of biomass for producing gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Michigan State University researchers have genetically engineered plants with oily leaves, which could aid in biofuel and animal feed production. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The ASBG will study the use of sugar beets and energy beets in the production of sustainable alternatives to petrochemicals. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Sustainable Development Technology Canada is now accepting applications for the 2013 NextGen Biofuels Fund. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
A group of young high school researchers have begun a project that looks at yeast on grapes, with the end goal of studying biofuel production. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Researchers with the USDA Agricultural Research Service have created fire logs created from a rather surprising and ubiquitos raw material: grass clippings. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Alltech vice president Aidan Connolly predicts a contraction in global feed production of 3-5 per cent in 2013, due to a number of large factors. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Purdue University researchers have received $5.2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a plant that can make biofuel products. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has pioneered new techniques of mass spectrometry that can help find new biofuel research opportunities. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The USDA Forestry Service has released an agroforestry handbook entitled "Profitable Farms and Woodlands," for farmers and woodland owners. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Vermont Technical College, in association with Quebec's Bio-Methatech, will create a biomass facility on the college farm. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Researchers from the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Service are exploring the costs associated with processing mesquite for biomass use. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Every June the Prince Edward Island landscape comes alive with wild lupins. The flowers are a potential health benefit for humans. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
There isn’t a need to hit the panic button, but keep an eye on downy mildew. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Atlantic BioEnergy Corp. expects to be producing ethanol at its new $6.2 million demonstration plant in Cornwall, Prince Edward Island by the end of January. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Rhizoctonia is a serious disease issue for many different crops across Canada and around the world. In Ontario soybean fields, it is an increasing problem, with yield impacts ranging from less than five percent to 50 percent. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The final disease surveys aren’t in yet, but 2011 will go down as one of the more infectious years for stripe rust in wheat caused by the fungus Puccinia striiformis. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!