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Jul 16, 2010 - Ethanol Producer
By Bill Greving
We’re excited about the “buzz” sorghum generates at a conference such as the Fuel Ethanol Workshop. Many attendees who dropped by the U.S. Sorghum Checkoff booth in St. Louis had sweet sorghum on their minds. USCP has worked diligently over the past year to provide information on grain sorghum as a feedstock in the ethanol process, sorghum distillers grains, transportation logistics and more. …
Jan. 18, 2010 - Southeast Missourian
By Michelle Felter
A Sikeston organization will take part in the development of Missouri Delta AgBioworks, designed to research and help facilitate the growth and processing of bio-based products to replace fossil feedstocks, as well as other materials made with fossil fuels, the Sikeston Standard Democrat reported.
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August 25, 2010 - Commercial Appeal
By: Toby Sells
The road to energy independence may be Walnut Grove.
The Memphis thoroughfare gives motorists traveling through Shelby Farms a plain view of the crops that may one day fill their fuel tanks or be used to make everyday things such as plastic.
October 15, 2010
By: Tom Wilemon
The development and adoption of new biofuels is a national security goal as well as an economic objective, said Dallas Tonsager, the under secretary for rural development for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
“It’s about getting to that point where you have enough independence in what you create that those who would do you harm no longer have that tool available to them,” Tonsager said in a keynote address to the Biomass South 2010 conference Thursday morning.
Jan. 23, 2011
By: Toby Sells
Bioscience industries in Tennessee and the Memphis region beat national averages in 2008 and 2009, and the sector remains a "legitimate star" in national and local economies. These findings were outlined last week to the Memphis Bioworks Business Association by Battelle, the nonprofit innovation advocate that originally identified Memphis' strengths in biosciences in a 2003 study.
Primary Authors: Simon Tripp, Battelle Technology Partnership Practice; Peter Nelson, BioDimensions, Inc.; Randy Powell, Ph.D., BioDimensions, Inc.
By: Elizabeth Hood, Peter Nelson, Randy Powell
As concerns regarding increasing energy prices, global warming and renewable resources continue to grow, so has scientific discovery into agricultural biomass conversion. Plant Biomass Conversion addresses both the development of plant biomass and conversion technology, in addition to issues surrounding biomass conversion, such as the affect on water resources and soil sustainability. This book also offers a brief overview of the current status of the industry and examples of production plants being used in current biomass conversion efforts.
By: Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
March 5, 2010
By: Leah Wells and Peter Nelson, BioDimensions, Inc./MBF
March 29, 2011
By: Aisling Maki
In the daily hustle and bustle of city life, it’s easy for Memphians to forget that the urban pocket they call home sits amid one of the nation’s richest agricultural regions.
And the world’s largest urban farm, nonprofit Agricenter International at 7777 Walnut Grove Road, is continually working to create more awareness about farming through educational programs and to advance agricultural technologies through research and trials.
May 1, 2011
By: Andre K. Fowlkes
Although Memphis still is home to leading cotton merchants, the trade doesn't employ the numbers it used to. Outsourcing, emerging market production and technological advances have caused so many cotton gins, warehouses, logistics providers and textile mills to close.
May 8, 2011
By: Toby Sells
A hard-pounding rain made it nearly impossible to talk inside the big metal building and the storm had knocked out the power, but Pete Nelson had just driven an hour in the mess and was determined to make his presentation. In one hand, he held a soil-caked, just-plucked sugar beet, and in the other, a Mason jar full of dark sugar beet juice, or "the new oil" as he called it. Sweet sorghum is one of the new energy crops that researchers say can be readily grown in the Mid-South and brought to market using Memphis' logistics networks....
October 19, 2011
By: Daniel Wilkerson
Memphis-based company Bio-Dimensions said it could soon bring thousands of jobs to West Tennessee.
October 10, 2011
By: Aisling Maki
Green is the buzzword in business these days. From economic development to real estate construction, public and private initiatives focused on sustainability are reshaping the way business is conducted.
Whiteville, Tenn – In West Tennessee, one company is growing a new energy crop with sweet results. BioDimensions Delta BioRenewables LLC (BDBR) is in its third year of operation of the Sweet Sorghum Development Program at its pilot-scale biorefinery in Whiteville, Tennessee on German Farms. BDBR has developed the first advanced rural biorefinery in the Mid-South to process sweet sorghum, which can be used to make a variety of biobased products such as carpet fibers, plastic bottles and ethanol.
