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An Outlook for the Biofuels Industry in the Southern United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2016

Anthony Crooks  and
John Dunn
Anthony Crooks
Affiliation:
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, in Washington, DC 20250–3252
John Dunn
Affiliation:
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, in Washington, DC 20250–3252
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Abstract

Two seemingly unrelated topics are discussed—an outlook for biofuels in the southern United States, along with an overview of the important role that information technology is playing in the fuel ethanol industry. The outlook discussion is limited to issues involving the two principal biofuels, fuel ethanol and biodiesel, and their respective feed stocks, corn and soybean oil. The two topics are linked with a description of how information technology (IT) has enabled the development of the fuel ethanol franchise and a discussion of how IT is changing the very nature of biofuel operations.

Keywords

biodieselbiofuelsfuel ethanolfuel ethanol franchiseinformation technologyITO14O31Q12Q13Q16
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Invited Paper Sessions
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , August 2006 , pp. 355 - 367
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2006

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