Crop Industry News: Germany
28 May 2008

GERMANY - Work is set to begin next month on the construction of a biogas plant in Southern Germany. ...
15 May 2008

GERMANY - BIOGAS NORD AG is to increase its capital in order to further implement its strategy of internationalization and technological innovation....

GERMANY - German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for rainforest protection in Brazil as well as cooperation with the country on biofuels during the first day of her first Latin America tour,...
07 May 2008

GERMANY - The German government rejected claims Tuesday that fuel crops were causing a worldwide spike in food prices. Berlin plans to announce a plan for easing the world food crisis by July,...
30 April 2008

GERMANY - German bioenergy company BIOGAS NORD AG is to start a programme of cost cutting and consolidation after its 2007 results failed to hit their targets....
25 April 2008

This is a GAIN Report by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)....
24 April 2008

BERLIN - Germany does not want to change the EU's goal of boosting the use of biofuels in cars, a senior official said Wednesday, despite criticism that this may further fuel the global rise...
23 April 2008

GERMANY - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and more than 100 other guests today marked the completion of the building phase of the world's first commercial production plant to convert biomass...
18 April 2008

GERMANY - Friedrich Wolf, managing director of E.ON Bioerdgas GmbH, is to call for greater investment to improve efficiency and technological innovation in the agricultural sector to produce...
04 April 2008

BERLIN - Amid growing fears that biofuel farming is harming the environment and driving up world food prices, Germany cancelled on Friday plans to mix more ethanol made from plants with petrol....
14 March 2008

GERMANY - The interest in renewable energy as an important part of the future energy production remains unchanged. After the huge success of the RENEXPO® 2007 at the end of September, there...
26 February 2008

GERMANY - With more bookings and more foor space than ever before, the International DLG Exhibition for Animal Husbandry and Management, EuroTier 2008 reports record exhibitor participation from...
14 February 2008

HAMBURG - A German joint venture said on Thursday it plans a series of 20 biogas production plants in France with investment totalling 50 million euros ($73.05 million)....
09 January 2008

GERMANY - German biodiesel will now be forced to compete as subsidies for biodiesel cease. As of January 1, 2008, the German gov't will receive nine cents on the dollar per liter of biodiesel....
28 December 2007

BERLIN - A biogas plant fuelled largely by chicken manure was launched at a poultry farm south of Berlin on Friday. ...
29 November 2007

The German agriculture and bioenergy industry is to press the government for higher returns on the electricity it supplies to the national grid....
26 November 2007

BERLIN - You may think that beer and oil don't mix, but in Germany there's a direct link between hefty increases in the cost of a barrel of each, writes Tom Hundley, Chicago Tribune....

GERMANY - The biggest order in its relatively young company history has been secured by BD Agro Renewables GmbH & Co. KG (BD Agro), the biogas segment of the Big Dutchman Group from Vechta-Calveslage,...