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Biorenewables Policy

The Biorenewables Policy Division in CARD addresses questions surrounding expansion of biorenewables in the United States. The division, created in 2006, aims to build upon the center's strength in economic modeling and collaborative analysis. Initial research will focus on the outlook for biofuels and crops used for biofuels production, including the effect of biofuels growth on the level and volatility of crop prices.

Research will also explore the impact of biofuels growth on the mix and location of livestock, effects of possible policy changes on biofuels production and prices, impacts of increased biofuels production on water quality, and impacts on local basis for corn and soybeans.

Highlights

The Midwest Agribusiness Trade Research and Information Center (MATRIC) at Iowa State University has published a book on using distillers grains, a co-product of biofuels production, as a feedstuff for livestock and poultry. The book is only available online at www.card.iastate.edu/books/distillers_grains/ and is free for downloading.

Recent Papers

The Impact of Ethanol Production on U.S. and Regional Gasoline Markets: An Update to 2012
Xiaodong Du, Dermot J. Hayes
May 2012 [12-WP 528]

Environmental Impacts of Emerging Biomass Feedstock Markets: Energy, Agriculture, and the Farmer
Rebecca S. Dodder, Amani Elobeid, Timothy L. Johnson, P. Ozge Kaplan, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Silvia Secchi, Simla Tokgoz
December 2011 [11-WP 526]

Recent Presentations

May 2011
Feeding Frenzy: Managing High Input Costs (pdf) 0.10 MB
Bruce A. Babcock
National Dairy Producers Conference, Omaha, Nebraska
April 2011
The State of Biofuel Today (pdf) 1.99 MB
Bruce A. Babcock
Presented at the Berkeley Bioeconomy Conference, March 24, University of California at Berkeley