{"id":52864,"date":"2015-06-02T23:04:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T03:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/?p=52864"},"modified":"2015-06-02T23:04:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T03:04:53","slug":"usda-researchers-see-camelina-and-soy-double-cropping-boosting-yields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/usda-researchers-see-camelina-and-soy-double-cropping-boosting-yields\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA researchers see camelina and soy double cropping boosting yields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">In Minnesota, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodieselmagazine.com\/articles\/406430\/researchers-study-benefits-of-double-cropping-camelina-soybeans\">federal mandates to produce more renewable fuels, especially biofuels, have led to a growing debate<\/a>: Should fuel or food grow on arable land? Recent research shows farmers can successfully, and sustainably, grow both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Russ Gesch, a plant physiologist with the USDA Soil Conservation Research Lab in Morris, Minnesota, found encouraging results when growing\u00a0Camelina sativa\u00a0with soybeans in the Midwest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Camelina is a member of the mustard family and an emerging biofuel crop. It is well suited as a cover crop in the Midwest. \u201cFinding any annual crop that will survive the [Midwest] winters is pretty difficult,\u201d said Gesch, \u201cbut winter camelina does that and it has a short enough growing season to allow farmers to grow a second crop after it during the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Minnesota, federal mandates to produce more renewable fuels, especially biofuels, have led to a growing debate: Should fuel or food grow on arable land? Recent research shows farmers can successfully, and sustainably, grow both. Russ Gesch, a plant physiologist with the USDA Soil Conservation Research Lab in Morris, Minnesota, found encouraging results when growing\u00a0Camelina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}