DTN

JUNE 26, 2023

The market for sustainable ingredients is continually expanding due to an increasing number of food, pet food, and biofuel companies setting goals to reduce their environmental impacts. A third party is often used to help food and biofuel companies source sustainable grains.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

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. NSP also plans to use a significant portion of its USDA Climate-Smart Commodities grant to bolster the biofuels market.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

The outlook summarizes baseline projections for agricultural and biofuel markets using information available in January 2023. Higher fertilizer, fuel and feed costs contributed to a sharp increase in farm production expenses in 2022. Based on forecasts by S&P Global analytics firm, U.S.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These practices include reducing or eliminating tilling of soil, planting “cover crops” that grow during the off-season and are not harvested, improving how farmers use fertilizer and manure, and planting trees. Here, manure is put into a digester to be turned into biofuel at Vanguard Renewables in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on Jan.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The biosolids created as sewage breaks down can be used as fertilizer on farmland, a practice that the Environmental Protection Agency still touts as “beneficial,” even though spreading these highly toxic chemicals across farmland allows the compounds to leach into the groundwater, contaminate crops grown on the land, and affect grazing animals.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. Seaweed is a “zero-input crop,” meaning it doesn’t need any additional food, fertilizer, or freshwater to grow.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. completely reuses all bagasse (the residual pulp left after juice is extracted from sugar cane) as biofuel and compost. Their brewery in Wales became the first carbon-neutral, nonalcoholic brewery in the world earlier this year. In 2016, Rhum J.M

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 10, 2023

Instead of adding synthetic fertilizers or importing compost, Breiter is using Hedstrom’s mycelium to turn forest slash into organic soil that he can work into his degraded land. “There’s going to be a lot of wood chip waste continuously coming out of the forest,” said Andy Breiter , a rancher in Boulder County. “We

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

They sell the wild and cultivated seaweed dried, and use the less delicious, more abundant kinds to fertilize the saltwater farm they’re reviving nearby. Others want to use kelp to reduce emissions by replacing carbon-intensive materials like soy, fertilizers, plastic, and petroleum with seaweed-derived versions.

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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Next Spring, Olam Food Ingredients will be conducting a field trial with Nitricity’s calcium nitrate fertilizer. Geopolitical conflicts threatening fertilizer supply are only increasing. Nitricity has hit multiple significant milestones. But our mission of feeding the world sustainably hasn’t lost in importance.

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