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Herbicide Tolerant Camelina Supports Large Acre Production

Agwired

Yield10 Bioscience announces positive results in the first field test of stacked herbicide tolerance (“HT”) traits in Camelina, which will help support grower adoption for the biofuel feedstock market by enabling weed control and increased access to acreage previously treated with Group 2 herbicides.

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An Ancient Grain Made New Again: How Sorghum Could Help U.S. Farms Adapt to Climate Change

Agritecture Blog

In the States, Sorghum is currently used mainly for creating biofuels and feeding livestock, but incorporating it into the American diet could have a long-lasting positive impact on our environment. During a normal year, he typically harvests about 150 bushels per acre of corn. Last year, he averaged only 22 per acre.

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What Does Sustainable Agriculture Mean for Grain Growers and Ag Retailers?

DTN

The phrase sustainable agriculture has gone from buzzword to mainstream terminology as many food, pet food, and biofuel businesses aim for low emission or zero net carbon targets. Similarly, agricultural practices don’t have to be exclusively regenerative or sustainable. Cover crops are a good example of this. billion by 2030 at a CAGR of 9.9%

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Start-Up Journeys after World Agri-Tech

World Agri-Tech

Commercially, we’ve been on many hundreds of thousands of acres, spread relatively evenly across cropping and grazing lands in the US. We’re also involved in measuring soil carbon, for the purpose of low carbon intensity fuels, biofuels that have stronger carbon intensity performance than petroleum-based fuels.

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Climate savior or ‘Monsanto of the sea’?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

In recent years, seaweed has been put forth as what one writer called a Swiss Army knife solution to climate change: able to absorb atmospheric carbon, reduce cattle’s methane emissions, provide feedstock for biofuels, and feed the world — no fertilizers, fresh water, or even land required. These concerns aren’t hypothetical. he asked. “Is

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Canola School: Clubroot — how much is too much?

Real Agriculture

With an average of over 20 million seeded acres in Canada, canola is one of Canada’s most widely grown crops. Used for cooking oil, processing foods, biofuel and protein for both animal feed and human consumption, it’s safe to say that it’s important to keep this vital crop protected from diseases such as clubroot, a.

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The Kelp Business is Booming. How Big is Too Big?

Modern Farmer

Now seen as a “future-proof” material, seaweed is a hardy, fast-growing protein source useful for everything from biofuel to petroleum-free plastic to consumer goods like utensils , soap , clothing , and of course, food. Now, they’re managing a 5-acre sea farm in Englishman Bay and cultivating thousands of pounds of kelp in the process.