The economic feasibility of producing ethanol from sweet sorghum juice is projected using Monte Carlo simulation models … to estimate the price ethanol plants will likely have to pay for sweet sorghum and the uncertain returns for ethanol … plants. Ethanol plants in high yielding regions will likely generate returns on assets of 11%-12% and in low yield areas the …

This paper aims to evaluate the potential for electricity and ethanol production in Central America using sweet sorghum …

emphasis on corn-based ethanol, on the U.S. economy. The modelspecification incorporates world and domestic markets, assumes … ethanol. The model is calibrated to represent a recent benchmark data set for 2009 andis used to simulate the positive and … normative effects of alternative policies. We find that asecond best policy of a fuel tax and ethanol subsidy approximates …

greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,interest has reemerged in biofuels, particularly ethanol, in the past twenty-five years. U.S.ethanol …

growing feedstock for ethanol (corn, sorghum, wheat,sugarcane, and other grains) and major crops competing with feedstock for … land resources suchas oilseeds. We shock the model with exogenous changes in ethanol demand, first in the UnitedStates … for ethanol. Land moves awayfrom major crops and pasture competing for resources with feedstock crops. Because of the …

Rapid growth in fuel ethanol production in the U.S. will create pressure on infrastructure both in the near term and … the longer term. Currently the vast majority of fuel ethanol produced is grain based with corn based feedstocks dwarfing … the quantity of all other grain feedstocks. In the future it is expected that biomass based ethanol production will also …

We analyze the relationship between the prices of ethanol, agricultural commodities and livestock in Nebraska, the U ….S. second largest ethanol producer. The paper focuses on long-run relations and Granger causality linkages between ethanol and …-of-sample predictive ability. Even after taking breaks into account, evidence that the price of ethanol drives the price dynamics of the …

ethanol and agricultural price returns, little is known about their whole distributions. We focus on predictability in … distribution by asking whether ethanol returns can be used to forecast different parts of field crops returns distribution, or vice … to the analyst. Results show that both the centre and the left tail of the ethanol returns distribution can be predicted …

This paper investigates the direct and indirect impacts of ethanol production on land use, deforestation and food … forest, is developed. It analyses how an exogenous increase in the ethanol price affects input allocation (land and labor … also deforestation. The overall impact of ethanol production on forest conversion is ambiguous, providing a number of …