After 15 years of work with some extraordinary collaborators, I’m thrilled to share that “The Biofuels Blueprint: Understanding the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard” has been…
Research on forecasting across a multitude of economic time series demonstrates an interesting principle: simple, robust statistical models tend to dominate in terms of forecast…
There is much discussion these days about China not buying any US soybeans so far this marketing year. This is decidely not the norm. For…
Last Friday, the EPA released its decision on 2016-2024 SREs (small refinery exemptions) under the RFS. The EPA awarded 63 full SREs and 77 partial…
A fundamental component of agricultural productivity is genetic gain in crop yields. Improving the genetic potential of crop yields has been central to most of…
There has been a lot of leaking lately in DC about renewable volume obligations (RVOs) for the RFS in 2026 and perhaps 2027. These leaks…
A few weeks ago, my publishing imprint, Ceres Books, released It’s All Speculation by Tom Hieronymus. It is a collection of Tom’s writings across his…
Last week, my little publishing imprint Ceres Books released a new title—It’s All Speculation by Tom Hieronymus. It is a collection of writings by Tom…
I am very pleased to share this guest blog post from Dwight Sanders of Southern Illinois University. He wrote an extended review of the newly…
My colleague, Michael Roberts of the University of Hawaii, recently started a new Substack blog called “Grains to Gigawatts.” His first post is an important…