The Digest 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to grain production systems to lower the carbon intensity score

Michigan State University, through Bruno Basso’s work, promotes a circular bioeconomy in grain production systems to lower the carbon intensity score. This approach unites circularity, emphasizing resource efficiency and waste minimization, with the bioeconomy, which displaces fossil fuels with bio-based products. The traditional linear agri-food system is resource-intensive and environmentally damaging. Transitioning to circular systems in agriculture can significantly reduce emissions and even achieve negative emissions through soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration. Strategies to reduce carbon intensity include changes in tillage practices and nitrogen application.