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Lessons Learned from 18,000 Points of Light – Making $ense of Energy

Biomass Rules Posted on May 13, 2025 by Mark JennerMay 13, 2025

The joy of finding a new dataset to explore enflamed my modeling focus more than was justified.  IT WAS GREAT TO BE LOOKING FOR STORIES IN A BRAND NEW DATASET! Challenge #1:  Monthly data from the power utility was too … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, economics, education, Making $ense of Energy, policy, production, Renewable Fuel, science, wealth creation | Tagged 2024, annual, daily, direct use, forensic modeling of missing data, hourly, kilowatt-hours (kWh), kilowatts (kW), lessons learned from 18000 points of light, Making $ense of Energy, making sense of energy, minutes, monthly, residential solar power, solar panel power production, solar panel power sales, south Central Illinois, utility supplied power | Leave a reply

Celebrating New Beginnings outside the Fold – Secret Life of Rural Communities

Biomass Rules Posted on May 12, 2025 by Mark JennerMay 12, 2025

For the first time in the last nine years, I participated in Greenville University’s 2025 Commencement Ceremony as a civilian, rather than faculty. Saturday, May 10th, was a glorious day, and so fun to see former colleagues and students and … Continue reading →

Posted in economics, education, policy, Secret Life of Rural Communities, wealth creation | Tagged back row seats, celebrating new beginnings outside the fold, civilian community member, Commencement 2025, faculty, Greenville, Greenville University, Illinois, May 10, passive crowd control, Rob Clark, secret life of rural communities, staff, students, The Lunch Company, thriving community, Tracy Hall | Leave a reply

Unpacking Applied Academic Agribusiness Programs

Biomass Rules Posted on April 3, 2025 by Mark JennerApril 3, 2025

I had the incredible opportunity to build an undergraduate agribusiness program at Greenville University for nearly a decade beginning in 2016.  I have four agricultural degrees from public land grant universities and worked in university research and extension.  But working … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, economics, education, policy, science, Secret Life of Rural Communities, wealth creation | Tagged accounting, agribusiness management, agribusiness programs, agricultural analytics, agricultural communication, agricultural language, applied agribusiness, business management, community college ag, fluent, four-year ag programs, high school ag, marketing, private business school, public land grant, St. Louis Agribusiness Club, Teaching Learning and Communication (TLC) Section of the Agriculture and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), the Illinois Agricultural Education & FFA Department, unpacking academic programs, unpacking applied academic agribusiness programs | Leave a reply

Managing the Cost of Food Waste Inflation

Biomass Rules Posted on March 18, 2025 by Mark JennerMarch 18, 2025

Biomass Rules operates at the intersection of production agricultural food production and opportunities to bring value-adding, agricultural byproducts back into the economy through reuse.  The moving target for value-adding byproducts is the pool of undervalued wastes.  The knowledge of agricultural … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, definition, economics, education, policy, science, wealth creation | Tagged anaerobic digestion, biofuels, compost, cost of food waste, dumping, food donation, food loss, food waste, food waste inflation, incineration, industrial uses, land application, landfill, livestock feed, managing the cost of food waste inflation, not harvested, production minus consumption is not waste, ReFED, sewer | Leave a reply

The More For Less of Trade – Real Adventures in Economics

Biomass Rules Posted on February 7, 2025 by Mark JennerFebruary 7, 2025

Trade fundamentally seeks out the most efficient combination of resource use.  In economic terms, it optimizes the lowest opportunity cost.  The US, and more recently Brazil, produce soybeans so well they supply the world.  When other nations import soybeans, it … Continue reading →

Posted in economics, education, farm, macro, policy, Real Adventures in Economics, wealth creation | Tagged bioenergy, buy local, COVID-19, difficult-to-monetize, education or sales, exports, imports, more for less of trade, real adventures in economics, tariffs, the more for less of trade in real adventures in economics, trade, Trade as percent of GDP, trade barriers, trade expansion, trade is complicated, trade wars, USAID, World Bank | Leave a reply

Local Resource Endowment Comparative Advantages – Secret Life of Rural Communities

Biomass Rules Posted on February 6, 2025 by Mark JennerFebruary 6, 2025

When the benefits of an activity are difficult to put a dollar value on, or monetize, the traditional cost curves don’t tell the whole story.  Total costs are the sum of all the variable costs and fixed costs.  Undervalued community … Continue reading →

Posted in economics, firm, macro, science, Secret Life of Rural Communities, wealth creation | Tagged community assets, comparative advantage, cultural capital, empowering theory, if a tree falls, implicit benefits, implicit costs, junior livestock sale, local resource endowment, local resource endowment comparative advantages in the secret life of rural communities, lower fixed costs, lower total costs, lower variable costs, political capital, secret life of rural communities, social capital, thrift shop, volunteer army | Leave a reply

Discovering the Value of Community – Secret Life of Rural Communities

Biomass Rules Posted on February 5, 2025 by Mark JennerFebruary 5, 2025

What is the value of a local home high school football game? How about the value of a community service organization? When I began my teaching career in undergraduate economics, I also moved back to my ancestorial home, Greenville, Illinois, … Continue reading →

Posted in definition, economics, policy, Secret Life of Rural Communities, wealth creation | Tagged affirming, community, community building, connecting, cultural, discovering the value of community and the secret life of rural communities, discovering value, failing, financial, grit and joy, human, intellectual, natural, physical, political, prevailing, remembering, rural wealth creation, social, the secret life of rural communities | Leave a reply

Byproduct Price Discovery in the Absence of Demand – Real Adventures in Economics

Biomass Rules Posted on January 20, 2025 by Mark JennerJanuary 20, 2025

Agricultural byproducts are not produced on demand.  The quantity of byproduct production is based on the demand for the higher valued commodity or product.  This is not news.  But it seems forgotten in the passionate discussions of waste cooking oils … Continue reading →

Posted in definition, economics, Real Adventures in Economics, science, wealth creation | Tagged absence of demand, biofuels, byproduct, byproduct price discovery in the absence of demand real adventures in economics, cost, disposal, economically efficient, eggs, emission, infrastructure, manure, price discovery, product, real adventures in economics, recycled paper, revenue, used vegetable oil, waste, wheat straw | Leave a reply

An Inventory of Cellular Transformation on Today’s US Farms

Biomass Rules Posted on January 15, 2025 by Mark JennerJanuary 15, 2025

Is emerging cellular agriculture an extension of farming? Or is it a replacement for farming?  An extension of farming – grain to beer – is an economic complement.  A farm replacement – meat and dairy protein from tanks – is … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, definition, economics, farm, macro, policy, science, wealth creation | Tagged 2022 Census of Agriculture, 2023 Census of Aquaculture, an inventory of cellular laboratories on today's US farms, cellular agriculture, cellular laboratories, cellular regeneration, complement, dairy, digester, haylage, Inventory, manure, meat, organic soil buffer, rumen, silage, substitute, substitute protein, US EPA AgSTAR farm digester database, US farms | Leave a reply

Aquaculture is Planet-Saving Anthropogenic Food Production

Biomass Rules Posted on January 9, 2025 by Mark JennerJanuary 9, 2025

Raised by depression-era parents, I have lived through the 1980s farm crisis, and spent 2 years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal using my first degree (BS agronomy) to help Nepali farmers grow more food. In the 80s and … Continue reading →

Posted in definition, economics, farm, macro, policy, production, science, wealth creation | Tagged anthropogenic, aquaculture, aquaculture is planet-saving anthropogenic food production, aquatic animals, aquatic plants, domestic, fish farm, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), food production, global, planet-saving, property ownership rights, sustainable fisheries, UN, USDA, wild, wild catch, wildlife | Leave a reply

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Providing solutions through the strategic utilization of all kinds of biomass; the development of new markets for food, fiber, and fuels; and streamlining regulations.

bio·mass:
ˈbī-ō-ˌmas. noun. 1 : the unit area or volume of living matter, 2 : plant materials and animal waste used as renewable feedstocks into new processes.

rules:
'rül. 1: noun. 1 : regulations, bylaws or governing procedure, 2: verb. a : to exert control, direction, or influence on, b : to declare authoritatively.

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is not a four-letter word.

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