Biofuels

Positive responses are obtained with glycerol content up to 10 per cent in poultry diets, according to a review of the literature by researchers from Arkansas and Yangling.

Glycerol can be used at 2.5 per cent in the diets of laying hens, without adverse effects, according to researchers based in Turkey, but higher levels of inclusion increased egg yolk cholesterol and altered the fatty aci…

Chemical analysis has helped researchers to develop a better prediction of the energy value of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and other ethanol by-products.

US - The debate over tax breaks is even touching Thanksgiving feasts.

MISSISSIPPI, US - Mississippi Solar LLC and Electrical Contracting Enterprises LLC have signed contracts to install three solar (PV) installations in the state.

US - The American Meat Institute (AMI) has joined a number of agriculture associations in expressing serious concerns over a new proposal from the ethanol industry.

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.

INDIA - The country's largest poultry litter-based power project is to be set up in the state of Haryana.

US - Increasing the amount of ethanol in motor fuel, as authorized today by the Environmental Protection Agency, will eventually hit food shoppers in their pocketbooks, the National Chicken Council said yesterday.

JAMAICA - A huge falloff in ethanol production was blamed for the 49 per cent decrease in net profit to $219 million experienced by Jamaica Broilers Group (JBG) for the first quarter ended 31 July 2010, when compared to …

NORTHERN IRELAND, UK - A massive biomass power plant fuelled by poultry litter and meat and bone meal in Northern Ireland is set to put serious pressure on the poultry industry south of the border.

US - Philip Smith of Tyson Foods will discuss the benefits of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) in poultry feeds at Export Exchange 2010.

NORTHERN IRELAND, UK - Plans have been approved for a plant for the disposal of poultry waste in County Antrim.

CALIFORNIA, US - Olivera Egg Ranch in French Camp will construct an anaerobic manure digester that will create methane gas, which will be used in a 1.4-megawatt fuel cell to generate electricity.

IRELAND - Anaerobic digestion systems using poultry and pig manure could generate energy and boost incomes.

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 covers only …

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

UKRAINE - Avangard has announced plans for two new poultry complexes by 2012, including a feed mill, slaughterhouse and biogas plant.

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, urged the House Way…

CANADA - Simple, 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 anima…