Comments on: Agri-Biotech Giant Monsanto Moves into its Newest Venture: Biofuels From Prairie Grasses

By: Six Ways to Profit From Guru Jim Rogers' Prediction That Sugar is Sweeter Than Gold

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:41:30 +0000

[...] One such new product: Ethanol fuel, much of which is made from sugar cane. Brazil, the world’s largest producer of sugar, is diverting more than half of its sugar-cane crop to ethanol production. That compares to only one-third of the corn crop in the United States, where the ethanol market is still nascent, and where researchers are looking at “Cellulosic” alternatives for biofuel production. [...]

By: With Oil Prices Poised to Jump as Much as 70%, Every Investor Needs an Energy Strategy

Thu, 21 May 2009 11:33:23 +0000

[...] at least part of the drop in demand can be attributed to increased reliance on methanol, ethanol and other types of biofuel, but that’s hard to quantify at the moment because the long period of low oil prices has [...]

By: Food Producers Fail to Benefit from Spike in Market Prices

Food Producers Fail to Benefit from Spike in Market Prices — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:53:30 +0000

[...] (The U.S. ethanol initiative relies on corn as a key ingredient – unlike Brazil’s very successful ethanol-fuel program, which is based on sugar cane. As Money Morning has reported, scientists in the United States and other countries are looking at ways of developing ethanol from cheap-and-plentiful prairie grasses). [...]