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Cattle Network.com - Thursday 7 June 2007

The feedstock for Brazilian ethanol is sugarcane. The Brazilian government has invested in research designed to improve sugarcane varieties that have resulted in sugarcane that is more resistant to drought and pests and yields higher sugar content. During the last 30 years, sugarcane yields have increased three-fold.

In the U.S. the feedstock is corn. Below is a comparison of Brazil’s sugarcane-ethanol industry and the U.S. corn-ethanol industry.