The emerging bioeconomy is effectively starting at the system level and moving down to individual market activities. A constant for millions of years is photosynthesis. It captures solar energy – everyday for millions of years – and converts it to … Continue reading →
Economic information these days, influenced by election-year passions, spawned economic claims that do not represent actual underlying economic trends. This post looks at the compelling nature of authentic data that does not have any meaningful forecasting value. Biomass Rules is … Continue reading →
What in the farm-data mess is this? …It is a map to providing pathways for turning wastes into revenues. This is Part 4 in stepping through the impact of technology on making the world better economically and ecologically. Recall: Outputs … Continue reading →
Once again, strolling back to the future, this matrix of biomass products was created 20 years ago. It still relevant and ties together the preceding themes nicely on a different level. Outputs are dependent on the inputs, or, y = … Continue reading →
The most successful manure producers are also the most creative manure users. Or at least they are creative in facilitating the use of manure by others. Being awesome is a lot of work. Recall that technology is defined as y=f(x). … Continue reading →
My career has been defined as y = f(x). Technology, and in this case, Outputs, y, are (created from,=,) a function of, f(), inputs, x. In other words, how inputs are combined determines the technology. Corn can be grown with … Continue reading →
In the most recent post, the case was made that in their role as producers, farms transform inputs into outputs more than establish and maintain markets in the final goods and services, retail sector. The 2022 Census of Agriculture also … Continue reading →
The previous post, The Price of Food Dominates Alternative Use Markets, sparked a desire to map out the farm-level activities into feed, fuel, and food. This was an innocent effort and was not successful. The transformations that occur on a … Continue reading →
Manure doesn’t have to be a liability or associated with a 4-letter expletive. Cultural shifts begin with the seminal definition of the issue in question. If the initial definition is negative, options are bound by the limits of the definition. … Continue reading →
In 2008, a major publisher ran a story about where all the biomass feedstocks were. It was a good story that brought attention to biomass as a fuel source. But they used the National Renewable Energy Labs (NREL) ‘Total Tonnes’ … Continue reading →
