By Sam Nejame & James Evangelow, Special to The Digest Two weeks ago the International Olympic Committee pulled Boston’s bid to host the 2024 Olympics. If you lived here, you couldn’t avoid the controversy over how much it might cost and the nagging questions about how the gargantuan facilities would be used afterward. The lost […]
Future Farm, Future Crop: Part 5 of 5. What happens when the rain moves, as it already is moving? Are farms in the right places? Are cities? Are the rivers and lakes? If you haven’t noticed lately, the rain is moving. It’s not raining exactly where it used to, the way it used to. So […]
A proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to change ethanol blending rules would significantly increase carbon emissions to the equivalent of adding nearly one million more passenger vehicles on the road, according to an analysis conducted by the Energy Resources Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The findings come in the wake […]
By Tim Sklar, special to The Digest A series of articles that recently appeared in last month in Biofuels Digest addressing the continued struggle to increase renewable fuels plant capacity to support anticipated advanced renewable fuels requirements. Also appearing in The Digest in late July were excerpts from a speech given by a CEO of […]
As AgTech software-as-a-service deploys, and Farm Belt job counts related directly to farming prepare to fall — how will agriculture and industrial biotech command the attention they need? Over at Monsanto, they speak in terms of reaching 300 bushels per acre in corn yields, and all this week we have been looking at an explosion of agricultural […]
DYSTOPIA. As automation arrives in force (and we mean, in force) — who votes for farmers when there are no farmers to vote? Are there downsides for feedstocks and supply chain if a technology wave goes wrong? “Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled […]
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Part II: UTOPIA? The Crop and Soil Technology Revolution, and what’s sizzling in drones, robotics and analytics. “They have built farm-houses over the whole country, which are well contrived and furnished with every necessary…those who live on the farms are never ignorant of agriculture, and commit no fatal errors, such as causing a scarcity of corn.” […]
As America’s farmers hit retirement age and technology options explode, what comes next? The Digest commences a five-part series today. The average age of the US farmer reached 58.3 years in the USDA’s 2012 Census of Agriculture. For sure, farmers have been older than the general population for some time. Why is it becoming important now? […]
With 3 acquisitions, the biomass consolidation czars consolidate as markets expand. Funding will enable company to expand biomass supply chain services across U.S. In Oregon, Pacific Ag has received a $7M investment from Advantage Capital Agribusiness Partners, a $154.5-million fund, licensed as a Rural Business Investment Company by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, focusing on […]
