Is butanol the next biofuel?
Butanol is the next biofuel to watch. Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is building a life-sized reactor based on a lab model perfected by Hans Blaschek, a University of Illinois microbiologist. He’s taken a bacterium found in soil, clostridium beijerinckii, added it to corn processing by-products and produced butanol, another kind of alcohol that has higher energy content and lower solubility with water than ethanol. Source: Doane’s Agricultural Report, Dec. 12, 2003 U.S. homeless, hungry increase The U.S. Conference of Mayors recently released their annual survey of hunger and homelessness in America’s cities. As the overall economy remained weak, requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 17 percent over the past year, and requests for emergency shelter assistance increased by an average of 13 percent in the 25 cities surveyed. Source: AFBF, Executive Newswatch, Dec. 18, 2003 Roundup Ready wheat almost ready to round up Roundup Ready wheat is two to three years awa
