Competitive Grant RFA Released

North Central Region Sun Grant Center/United States Department of Energy 2010 RFA: Optimizing Lignocellulosic Feedstock Production Across a Landscape: Production, Economic, and Environmental Feasibility

Funding: About $2million and looking for small projects of $80,000 to larger projects of $700,000.

Pre-proposal deadline: August 10, 2010



Important: You must log-on to Webnibus to complete your pre-proposal, however Webnibus is currently down for maintenance. We expect it to be on-line by the end of the week.



This is the first of three RFAs we will be releasing as part of the competitive grants program.

USDA Bioenergy Market News for Producers, Consumers and Distributors

Producers, consumers and distributors of bioenergy products can access crucial market data through the new Bioenergy Market News Reports to be published by the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service. Click here to access -- http://www.marketnews.usda.gov/
the news.

Information will be complied from several sources and will be posted to allow producers, consumers, and distributors make informed decisions regarding the sale and purchase of their bioenergy products nationally and internationally. Several Market News Reports offer information on bioenergy products.

For more information about Bioenergy Market News Reports, contact Jim Bernau at (515) 284-4460 or Jim.Bernau@ams.usda.gov .

SE Region Sun Grant Center Hosts Biorefining Conference

The SE Region Sun Grant Center is hosting a conference: "Frontiers In Biorefining: Biobased Products from Renewable Carbon”. The conference is October 19-22, 2010 at the King and Prince Golf Resort on St. Simons Island, Georgia, this international conference will emphasize recent progress in biorefinery products other than fuels. Additional information is provided on the attached announcement, and at the conference website (www.utbioenergy. org/OBP/FIB2010/index.html). Attendance is limited to 125-150, so early registration is advised.

The conference is being supported by the Southeast Sun Grant Center and USDA-NIFA (through a grant to UT).

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