Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 5, 2023

On this show, host Shaun Haney is joined by: Steve Pratte, senior manager, transportation and biofuel policy with the Canadian Canola Growers Association, on Transport Canada’s upcoming railway policy review; Erin Gowriluk, president of Canada Grains Council, on the importance of science-based policy; and, Alanna Koch, Read More

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Comment Re: Procedures for Quantification, Reporting, and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with the Production of Domestic Agricultural Commodities Used as Biofuel Feedstocks (Docket No. In addition, standardized methods across multiple federal agencies will prove necessary for all GHG programs that integrate biofuels.

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Agwired

JANUARY 15, 2025

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack held his last official press conference of his tenure at USDA on Wednesday, announcing the publication of an interim rule on Technical Guidelines for Climate-Smart Agriculture Crops Used as Biofuel Feedstocks. “First of all, there’s an additional crop in addition to corn and soybeans.

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Western FarmPress

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The market for sustainable aviation fuels is set to skyrocket, according to a report.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These vital programs operate in all fifty states and a failure to fund them in a farm bill or farm bill extension in 2024 negatively impacts countless farmers, ranchers, and food system stakeholders.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 15, 2025

USDA has published an interim rule on Technical Guidelines for Climate-Smart Agriculture Crops Used as Biofuel Feedstocks that establishes guidelines for quantifying, reporting, and verifying the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of corn, soy, and sorghum.

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Agric4profits

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Oil palms are primarily cultivated for their oil-rich fruit, which produces palm oil—a key ingredient in food, cosmetics, and biofuels. Oil palm farming is one of the most lucrative and essential agricultural practices worldwide.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Demand for grains and crop-based biofuels expected to drive profits higher over the next two years.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 18, 2025

The major achievements of the Green Revolution consisted of the development of high-yielding crop varieties, increased mechanization, synthetic fertilizers, a dizzying array of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, etc.), Crop diversity has decreased by 75% since 1950. and various production technologies.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

MAY 19, 2024

billion pounds of soybean oil would be used in biofuel production. soybean oil usage trends During the 2014/15 marketing year, biofuel accounted for just 24% of soybean usage in the U.S. billion to biofuel, and 2.0 Wrapping it up Biofuels have been the only source of growth in soybean oil usage over the last decade.

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ATTRA

JUNE 4, 2024

Researchers at Princeton University and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center modeled a supply chain for second-generation biofuels that addresses both the crop and processing aspects of biofuel production.

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 26, 2023

Farmers Weekly Teesside biofuel operator Ensus UK is to build a new £60m-£70m animal feed plant at its Wilton International plant, as one of a number of major new projects. The biorefinery already produces about 350,000t/year of dried distillers’ grains with solubles (DDGS) as a by-product, primarily used by UK cattle and pig farmers.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 16, 2025

Without new demand for corn and soybeans, producers are facing a sideways market plateau that could last 10 years. Over the next decade, corn could be anchored in a $4.30 trading range and soybeans could be stuck in the same mud at $10.30

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ATTRA

JULY 1, 2024

grown biofuel feedstock crops. This input will help in establishing voluntary standards for biofuel feedstocks grown with practices that mitigate GHG emissions and/or sequester soil carbon. The public comment period will end July 26, 2024.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

ADM and Syngenta Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the development of low carbon, next-generation oilseeds and improved varieties to help meet growing demand for biofuels fueled by sustainable aviation fuel.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Two years ago, it felt like every third article was about soybean oil , biofuels , and the unlimited potential. Perhaps due to lower commodity prices or the general attention span, soybean oil chatter has waned despite the biofuel trend continuing. billion that went to biofuels. In other words, this isn’t exactly a new trend.

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Food Politics

OCTOBER 8, 2024

These include: Crop insurance SNAP Some disaster programs Some commodity support programs The big problem is with dairy and a few other commodity support programs.

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Agric4profits

JULY 21, 2024

Sorghum nodes are important structures found on the stem of the sorghum plant, which is a major cereal crop grown globally for food, fodder, and biofuel.

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DTN

MARCH 21, 2024

Change is coming, but slower than we need Compared to the 2017 census, no-till practices and cover crops were up but not at the rate needed to keep pace with climate change. Cover crop acres increased to 18 million total acres, a 17% increase, but when compared to total farmland, this represents only 6% of 300 million acres.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Pongamia growing in Central Florida Pongamia is a regenerative, permanent tree crop that stores carbon and produces a bean pod that can be used in turn to produce food, feed, and fuel. Terviva has been developing elite pongamia cultivars over 15 years of research trials spanning nearly 2,000 acres in Florida, Hawai’i and Australia.

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Agwired

MARCH 20, 2025

Department of Agricultures Office of Energy and Environmental Policy regarding the interim rule on Technical Guidelines for Climate-Smart Agriculture Crops Used as Biofuel Feedstocks. The Renewable Fuels Association submitted formal comments to the U.S.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

If theres one thing thats predictable in the current grain markets, its unpredictability. While farmers are not complaining about a trend reversal in the corn market to the upside, the uncertainty of whats at play in the market does create some stress.

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World Agri-Tech

MARCH 12, 2024

Meet camelina, an oilseed crop harvested today primarily across Europe and North America. Although not widely known, camelina is a crop with immense potential as a feedstock for sustainable biofuel. What’s more, camelina is a hearty crop and can be grown across a variety of climates. The goal of the partnership?

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Why we need crop wild relatives. No, really, we need crop wild relatives. And livestock get conserved in genebanks too, though not as much as crops. Farmers conserve crop (and livestock) diversity too, of course. The banana is in trouble. Which is why we need to conserve banana wild relatives and landraces.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

corn product and has increased the price of corn by about 30% and other crops by about 20% annually (Lark and Stevens agreed with this. There is no easy way to compare the cost to water quality and biodiversity of increased row crop acres to the benefits to cleaner burning fuels of those same acres providing for the ethanol industry.

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NASDA

AUGUST 20, 2024

Agricultural facilities have no viable alternative transportation options to supply Canada’s international customers and the inability to cycle products through the supply chain could limit producers’ ability to deliver harvested crops.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Its foundation relies on resource-intensive commodity crop production, which needs the majority of fertile lands to feed animals kept in confined spaces. These crops are also the largest consumer of increasingly scarce river water in the Western United States. But a closer look at our food system reveals many challenges.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 3, 2023

“We are particularly focused on crop insurance and the safety net programs of the farm bill.” ” Wolle said ethanol remains a top priority for NCGA, including support of the Next Generation Fuels Act in the House and Senate while making ethanol a go-to biofuel in the aviation sector.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

. “In June, you saw a request for information around biofuels from USDA that sought to get responses from the public about creating a system to actually track carbon intensity completely through the supply chain. We think that could be really important for sustainable aviation fuels and biofuels more broadly,” Bonnie said.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Consumption of crops or animals grown on PFAS-contaminated land puts humans at high risk of illness. A series of special fundraisers and an emergency relief fund helped to keep farms afloat in the aftermath of the discovery, and since then, some have changed what they grow or altered their crops.

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Agwired

MARCH 21, 2024

His company’s technology can utilize a range of sustainable woody residues, agricultural byproducts, and next-generation energy crops like miscanthus to produce SAF. World Energy has been in advanced biofuels for over 25 years and is now on the forefront of SAF. . “You are above ground oil wells,” said Obitts.

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Agwired

AUGUST 3, 2023

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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Agwired

MARCH 28, 2024

Clean Fuels Alliance America, formally known as the National Biodiesel Board, hosted a Learning Center Session at the recent 2024 Commodity Classic to discuss the rapid growth of biodiesel, renewable diesel, and sustainable aviation fuel demand and coordinated growth of feedstocks, including new oilseed crops.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As an example, Cover Crop is a basic Conservation Practice that NRCS compensates producers for in multiple conservation programs. As an example, NRCS considers the use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter an enhancement on the basic Cover Crop practice.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Farmers sitting on unpriced grain aren’t going to love this week’s market report from Neil Townsend, market analyst with Grainfox. But not liking it doesn’t change the facts: there’s plenty of grain out there and buyers know they can get what they need at a lower price than many want to accept.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Editor’s Note: Sorghum is not a well-known crop in the states, but this drought-tolerant crop could be a farm-saving plant in regions like the American Great Plains. Like many of the neighboring farms in his northeast corner of Oklahoma, his corn crop practically shriveled up due to the lack of moisture. Credit: Peggy Greb.

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DTN

JUNE 26, 2023

Grain growers won’t change their planting or crop protection practices without knowing how the switch will affect their profitability and long-term goals. Other sustainable agricultural practices (which, again, are not new concepts) include crop rotation, strategic irrigation, and using inputs with a low environmental impact.

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