Industrial Uses of Agricultural Materials Situation and Outlook Report (1)

By Lewrene Glaser and Gregory Gajewski

Outlook Report No. (IUS-1) 72 pp, June 1993

Recent scientific advances are reducing the costs of producing and processing renewable resources into industrial products. These include advances that make agricultural production techniques more environmentally benign. And the advances in processing engineering—especially in destructive distillation, steam explosion, ultracentrifuges, and membranes—are making agriculturally based products more competitive. The scientific gains, along with Federal and State environmental regulations and growing consumer preferences for “green” products, are increasing the industrial demand for agricultural materials.

Keywords: industrial uses, agricultural materials, corn, rapeseed, crambe, jojoba, kenaf, milkweed, forest products, taxol, guayule, biodegradable polymers, ethanol, ERS, USDA

In this report ...

Chapters are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

• View contents page, 70 kb

• Pages 1- 20, 1,936 kb
• Pages 21- 40, 1,795 kb
• The Effects of Expanding Biodegradable Polymer Production on the Farm Sector, 673 kb
• Ethanol’s Evolving Role in the U.S. Automobile Fuel Market, 575 kb
• Appendix Tables, 1,000 kb

• Entire Document, 5,971 kb

Updated date: June 1, 1993