Cargill, others in talks to build $40M biodiesel plant in KC
Kansas City Business Journal - 12:34 PM CDT Wednesday
Cargill Inc., the Missouri Soybean Association and individual farmers across the state are working on a plan to build a $40 million biodiesel plant and food-grade glycerin refinery adjacent to Cargill's existing soybean processing plant in Kansas City.
The association and farmers have formed Paseo Biofuels LLC, based in Jefferson City, which hopes to raise $24 million and take majority ownership of the plant, John Kleiboeker, director of field services for the association, said Wednesday.
The parties involved in the development haven't formed a definitive agreement to proceed, Cargill spokesman David Feider said. If the plan is finalized, then construction would start in the fall, and biodiesel production could begin in the summer of 2007.
The new plant is expected to add about 15 to 20 jobs, Kleiboeker said.
Cargill's existing soybean processing plant is at 2334 Rochester Ave., roughly southeast of Interstate 35 and Front Street. It employs about 50 people, Feider said.
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It will be interesting to see how this develops. Good to see some large corporations seriously investigating alternative fuels.
It will take the initiative of large corporations like this, for our country to make serious inroads into alternative fuels.
http://agnews.tamu.edu/dailynews/stories/FUEL/Aug1106a.htm
Federal Grant Will Boost Biofuels Research
Aug. 11, 2006
Writer: Mike L. Downey, 979-845-2895,mldowney@avantguild.com
Contacts: Dr. Bill Rooney, 979-845-2151,wlr@tamu.edu
Dr. John Mullet, 979-845-0722,jmullet@tamu.edu
COLLEGE STATION -- A federal grant of $800,000 to advance biofuels research to a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station-led collaborative team is among $5.7 million in awards announced Aug. 10 in Washington, D.C.
The principal investigator is Experiment Station plant breeder Dr. William "Bill" Rooney.
Over the next two years, the grant will go toward genomic and genetic research of sorghum for use as a biofuel, Rooney said.
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced the two departments have jointly awarded nine grants totaling $5.7 million for bio-based fuels research to accelerate development of alternative fuel resources.
"This grant will enhance our ability to develop a better understanding of the sorghum genome to produce better biomass and a better biofuel," Rooney said.
Co-principal investigators are Dr. John Mullet, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology; Steve Kresovich, Cornell University; and Doreen Ware, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
"To be a reliable energy source, producers must be able to grow biomass in large quantities," Johanns said. "This joint research initiative will address our nation's need for alternative energy resources and improve the efficiency with which biomass and plant feedstocks are used to produce fuels such as ethanol or renewable chemical feedstocks."
The research projects build on the energy department's strategic investments in genomics, step up scientific discovery and promote development of alternative energy sources vital to America's energy and economic security, added Bodman.
USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service and DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research awarded the grants. The two groups jointly initiated this fundamental research program to aid use of woody plant tissue, specifically lignocellulosic materials, for bioenergy or biofuels. The research projects focus on sorghum, poplar, alfalfa, wheat and other grasses.
This is the first year the groups have solicited competitive grants in this joint program.
The energy department is funding six projects of nearly $3.9 million, while the agriculture department granted more than $1.8 million to fund three projects.
Initial funding will support research projects up to three years.
Recently, Johanns and Bodman announced the two agencies will co-host a national renewable energy conference in October to help create partnerships and strategies needed to speed commercialization of renewable energy industries and distribution systems, the crux of President Bush's Advanced Energy Initiative.
Visit http://sc.doe.gov/ober/ober_top.html and http://www.csrees.usda.gov for more information.
Other awards went to:
The Noble Foundation, Okla., $800,000.
USDA-Agricultural Research Service, University of Wisconsin, $333,000.
Purdue University, Ind., $1.4 million.
Carnegie Institute of Washington, $359,100.
Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, $300,000.
North Carolina State University, $700,000.
Kansas State University, $700,000.
University of Georgia, $445,000.
This funding is woefully inadequate but it is a start, at least.
Federal Grant Will Boost Biofuels Research
Aug. 11, 2006
Writer: Mike L. Downey, 979-845-2895,mldowney@avantguild.com
Contacts: Dr. Bill Rooney, 979-845-2151,wlr@tamu.edu
Dr. John Mullet, 979-845-0722,jmullet@tamu.edu
COLLEGE STATION -- A federal grant of $800,000 to advance biofuels research to a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station-led collaborative team is among $5.7 million in awards announced Aug. 10 in Washington, D.C.
The principal investigator is Experiment Station plant breeder Dr. William "Bill" Rooney.
Over the next two years, the grant will go toward genomic and genetic research of sorghum for use as a biofuel, Rooney said.
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced the two departments have jointly awarded nine grants totaling $5.7 million for bio-based fuels research to accelerate development of alternative fuel resources.
"This grant will enhance our ability to develop a better understanding of the sorghum genome to produce better biomass and a better biofuel," Rooney said.
Co-principal investigators are Dr. John Mullet, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology; Steve Kresovich, Cornell University; and Doreen Ware, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
"To be a reliable energy source, producers must be able to grow biomass in large quantities," Johanns said. "This joint research initiative will address our nation's need for alternative energy resources and improve the efficiency with which biomass and plant feedstocks are used to produce fuels such as ethanol or renewable chemical feedstocks."
The research projects build on the energy department's strategic investments in genomics, step up scientific discovery and promote development of alternative energy sources vital to America's energy and economic security, added Bodman.
USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service and DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research awarded the grants. The two groups jointly initiated this fundamental research program to aid use of woody plant tissue, specifically lignocellulosic materials, for bioenergy or biofuels. The research projects focus on sorghum, poplar, alfalfa, wheat and other grasses.
This is the first year the groups have solicited competitive grants in this joint program.
The energy department is funding six projects of nearly $3.9 million, while the agriculture department granted more than $1.8 million to fund three projects.
Initial funding will support research projects up to three years.
Recently, Johanns and Bodman announced the two agencies will co-host a national renewable energy conference in October to help create partnerships and strategies needed to speed commercialization of renewable energy industries and distribution systems, the crux of President Bush's Advanced Energy Initiative.
Visit http://sc.doe.gov/ober/ober_top.html and http://www.csrees.usda.gov for more information.
Other awards went to:
The Noble Foundation, Okla., $800,000.
USDA-Agricultural Research Service, University of Wisconsin, $333,000.
Purdue University, Ind., $1.4 million.
Carnegie Institute of Washington, $359,100.
Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, $300,000.
North Carolina State University, $700,000.
Kansas State University, $700,000.
University of Georgia, $445,000.
This funding is woefully inadequate but it is a start, at least.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/15252664.htm
Company considers Milford site for ethanol plant
Associated Press
Local officials have talked with representatives of a company considering a site for what would be the second biofuels plant in Kosciusko County.
American Milling Co. of Cahokia, Ill., is interested in a site near Milford, including more than 200 acres owned by Harlan Beer, who said his property was under consideration.
The company is studying the site for an ethanol plant because it has access to railroad lines running both north-south and east-west, county Commissioner Bradford Jackson said.
American Milling has not made any announcement of an ethanol plant project for the area.
County planning Director Dan Richard said officials from American Milling visited the county planning office recently and asked about zoning requirements.
The staff provided them with copies of zoning regulations and information on the rezoning that was approved for a Louis Dreyfus Agriculture Industries biodiesel fuels plant in Claypool.
Louis Dreyfus is building a nearly $100 million plant there. Indiana now has two biofuels plants in operation, and state officials say at least 14 others are either under construction or have been announced.
For more on this story, see Saturday's editions of The Journal Gazette or visit http://www.journalgazette.net after 7 a.m. Fort Wayne time Saturday.
POSTED: 11:50 A.M. FRIDAY, AUG. 11, 2006
Company considers Milford site for ethanol plant
Associated Press
Local officials have talked with representatives of a company considering a site for what would be the second biofuels plant in Kosciusko County.
American Milling Co. of Cahokia, Ill., is interested in a site near Milford, including more than 200 acres owned by Harlan Beer, who said his property was under consideration.
The company is studying the site for an ethanol plant because it has access to railroad lines running both north-south and east-west, county Commissioner Bradford Jackson said.
American Milling has not made any announcement of an ethanol plant project for the area.
County planning Director Dan Richard said officials from American Milling visited the county planning office recently and asked about zoning requirements.
The staff provided them with copies of zoning regulations and information on the rezoning that was approved for a Louis Dreyfus Agriculture Industries biodiesel fuels plant in Claypool.
Louis Dreyfus is building a nearly $100 million plant there. Indiana now has two biofuels plants in operation, and state officials say at least 14 others are either under construction or have been announced.
For more on this story, see Saturday's editions of The Journal Gazette or visit http://www.journalgazette.net after 7 a.m. Fort Wayne time Saturday.
POSTED: 11:50 A.M. FRIDAY, AUG. 11, 2006
Great read Pie...It's interesting that they are targeting sorghum cane, which grows profusely here in Missouri. Imagine the money spent over the last four years in Iraq, invested instead in these universities toward this effort.
Yes, imagine. When I googled for some articles there were many- especially from overseas publications. With the unrest in the ME and rising/unstable oil prices, perahps this time we will approach the fuel dilemma with some intelligence and long range thinking. 
And biofuel industry could really help to revive some of the areas where manufacturing has fallen on such hard times- or one would hope. A whole new industry with employment opportunities.
And biofuel industry could really help to revive some of the areas where manufacturing has fallen on such hard times- or one would hope. A whole new industry with employment opportunities.
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