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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 http://www.matric.iastate.edu/DGbook and is free for downloading.

Recent Papers

Dynamics of Biofuel Stock Prices: A Bayesian Approach
Xiaodong Du, Dermot J. Hayes, Cindy L. Yu
September 2009 [09-WP 498]

Impact of Biofuels Policy on Agribusiness Stock Prices, The
Fatma Sine Tepe, Xiaodong Du, David A. Hennessy
September 2009 [09-WP 497]

Recent Presentations

May 2009
Statement at the hearing on indirect land use and renewable biomass provisions of the Renewable Fuels Standard (pdf) 0.28 MB
Bruce A. Babcock
Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research of the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Towards an Integrated Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Model: Greenhouse Gases from Agriculture Simulation Model (GreenAgSiM) (pdf) 1.20 MB
Jerome Dumortier and Dermot J. Hayes
Poster