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CALENDAR
BIOMASS SOUTH 2010
10/14/10 - 10/15/10
Holiday Inn Conference Center and the FedEx Institute of Technology
LINKS
Watch a video on the recent Agri-Energy Field Day
Regional Strategy for Biobased Products in the Mississippi Delta
For additional information, please contact Randall Powell or Pete Nelson
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Bioworks Magazine
Spring 2010
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Memphis Bioworks Foundation: Leading the way for a Regional Bioeconomy
AgBioworks is an initiative of Memphis Bioworks Foundation and BioDimensions dedicated to developing new agricultural technologies and processing, which will result in a strong bioeconomy in the Mississippi Delta. Bioeconomy refers to the sustainable use of agricultural and forestry products to supply abundant food, biofuels and biobased products that are increasing in global importance. The development of strategies to increase biodiversity, opportunities for farmers and increase green jobs has created new opportunities to impact workforce development and the economy.
Featured Reports
"Biomass and Biofuels Development in Kentucky" A Collaborative effort of the Governor's Office of Agricultural Policy and the Energy and Environment Office, December 10, 2009
"Tennessee Biofuels Intiative Fact Sheet" Prepared by University of Tennessee, November 2009
"Commentary and Overview for the Tennessee Processing Cooperative Law" University of Tennessee Extension Service
"More than Green Fuel in a Dirty Economy" World Wildlife Foundation, 2009
News
Agricenter shows off progress in developing renewable energy sourcesAug 25, 2010, By Toby SellsThe Commercial Appeal 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. Local agriculture leaders led a group of farmers, academics and business leade.... |
AgBioWorks Initiative office created at universityAug 10, 2010, By Tom BerryMurray Ledger & Times Murray State University agriculture officials have announced the formation of the West Kentucky AgBioWorks Initiative office at the college's Regional Business Innovation Center. During the university's Regional Agri-Energy Field Day Thursday at Pullen Farm, President Dr. Randy Dunn was on-hand to accept a check for $62,000 that will create an o.... Full story» |
The Potential for Sweet Sorghum BiofuelsJul 17, 2010, By Bill GrevingEthanol Producer 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 disti.... |
Biomass Energy Crops Farm TourJun 24, 2010AgBioworks  Memphis Bioworks Foundation, BioDimensions, Inc. and Ceres, Inc. hosted an information field day on June 24, 2010 at the Karcher Farm to showcase biomass energy crops that may be part of a new crop rotation in the Mid-South Mississippi Delta region. Ceres, Inc. is a leading developer of high-yielding energy crops that can be planted as raw material....Full story» |
Project looks to create green agriculture economy in BootheelJun 14, 2010, By Michelle FelterSoutheast Missourian  SIKESTON, Mo. -- 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.
"Our chamber was recently appro....Full story» |
Memphis Bioworks Awarded $2.9 Million ARRA Department of Labor Grant for Green Jobs TrainingJan 06, 2010AgBioworks Memphis Bioworks Foundation announced it has been awarded a $2.9 million Energy Training Partnership Grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Green Jobs Training Program. The two-year initiative will fund programs to train area workers for jobs in energy-efficiency and renewable energy occupations. Memphis Bioworks Foundatio.... |
Growing a Biobased FutureDec 07, 2009, By Brian GoffMid-South Farmer Magazine  Thanks to a partnership between a Memphis-based nonprofit research foundation and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, a number of West Tennessee farmers are now growing non-conventional crops that may soon be used to create everything from cooking oil to plastics to help satisfy a global demand for a wide range of refined products. .... |
Ailing Delta can take lead in ag-based drive to 'bioeconomy'Nov 29, 2009, By Peter Nelson, Special to The Commercial AppealThe Commercial Appeal While the economic problems of the Mississippi River Delta region are long-standing
and complex, there is hope for the region and it lies directly under our feet.
The very factor that a Nov. 8 article in The Commercial Appeal's Viewpoint section
cited as one of reasons for the demise of the Delta region -- agriculture - can be the
catalyst f.... |
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