BASF introduces low carbon intensity crop platform
In North Carolina, BASF has introduced Circalo™: Low Carbon Intensity Crops, a comprehensive, unified platform designed to connect farmers, agronomists and ethanol producers with the tools needed to help operationalize agricultural carbon intensity (CI) under evolving regulatory frameworks, including the Clean Fuel Production Credit (Section 45Z). By utilizing xarvio® FIELD MANAGER and xarvio BIOENERGY, Circalo: Low Carbon Intensity Crops helps transform on-farm data into verifiable, auditable inputs that can be used by biorefineries to support low CI fuel production strategies.
As the U.S. ethanol industry prepares for implementation of Section 45Z, biorefineries face a clear reality: the CI of agricultural feedstocks will increasingly determine competitiveness, margin and long-term market access. While many growers are already using conservation and efficiency practices that lower CI, ethanol producers need scalable, verifiable systems to document those practices and translate them into measurable CI reductions at the plant level.
Category: Fuels
