Foreword
It is an absolute delight to be
able to say that our “cover story”, if you will, comes from home: as
the Island of Jersey has announced it's new rural economy strategy, which
includes policies that originated through consultation with NNFCC.
Jersey has struggled in recent years with a Potato Cyst Nematode problem,
which has led to them looking for opportunities to grow alternative crops
instead. After investigating a large number of low volume/high value non-food
crops that could be grown on the island, NNFCC outlined a complete value chain
for specialist oil crops to be utilised for cosmetics production on the island.
Following a second consultation expanding out into...
Other News this Month Includes:
Policy
- Jersey to grow
tea thanks to NNFCC
- Chatham House
report met with rebuke by the industry
- Composts remain
low risk for agriculture use
- Low risk when
using digestate in agriculture
Markets
- Mapping the
Latin American Oil Palm industry
- Drop in biomass
power price sees pellet surge in Japan
Research & Development
- Analysis of
land-use change in Midwest America
- Effect of
biofuel & biomass feedstock crops on ecosystem services
- Seaweed
as feedstock for Biomethane
- Discussion of
organic waste as suitable biorefinery feedstock
- Singapore's
A*STAR to research feedstock opportunities for biorefining
Wood & Crop
- Drax in bid to
acquire struggling pellet plants
- Partnership to
strengthen miscanthus for energy industry
- Roundwood prices
continued to rise in 2016
- Expansion of US
Pellet Fuels Institute's Standards Program
- Spencer Group
builds three Pellet Silos at Port of Tyne
Other Feedstocks
- Airex unveils
torrefaction plant
- Bio-bean turns
Caffe Nero's waste beans into pellets
Feedstock Prices