{"id":39,"date":"2006-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solutionsfromtheland.org\/25x25\/2006\/06\/13\/why-25x25-is-good-for-agriculture-and-forestry\/"},"modified":"2021-06-03T23:40:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T03:40:24","slug":"why-25x25-is-good-for-agriculture-and-forestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solutionsfromtheland.org\/25x25\/why-25x25-is-good-for-agriculture-and-forestry","title":{"rendered":"Why 25x&#8217;25 is Good for Agriculture and Forestry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Growing our Energy Future: Solutions from the Land<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nAmerican&#8217;s farms, ranches and forests-our working lands-are well positioned to make significant contributions to the development and implementation of new energy solutions. Long known and respected for their contributions to providing the nation&#8217;s food and fiber, an emerging opportunity exists for crop, livestock and grass and horticultural producers, as well as forest land owners, to become major producers of another essential commodity-energy.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/solutionsfromtheland.org\/storage\/25x25\/images\/img_agri-forestry.jpg\" alt=\"25x25\" width=\"141\" height=\"160\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>\nConsider these facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The current petroleum-based energy paradigm is no longer sustainable.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Our nation and the world are looking for new energy solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Energy, economic development, national security and environmental quality are inextricably linked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Corn and soybean producers have shown how the agricultural sector can become modern-day energy providers. However, America&#8217;s farms, ranches and forestlands are playing a much larger role in providing renewable forms of energy. &#8220;Home grown&#8221; energy solutions offer tremendous potential for producers, landowners and processors to capture income; for rural communities to prosper; and for the nation to lessen its dependence on foreign oil. Through emerging technology, farmers, ranchers and woodland owners are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Producing biomass and turning plant residues, processing byproducts and animal wastes into value-added energy feedstocks and biobased products.<\/li>\n<li>Generating electricity by harnessing wind and solar energy, capturing and converting biogas emissions, and producing biomass<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Dramatically increasing the production of liquid transportation fuels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>National agricultural and forestry leaders have been working to promote the 25x&#8217;25 vision and have formed the 25x&#8217;25 Alliance. For more information on this group, please visit <a href=\"about-25x25\/\">www.25&#215;25.org\/about<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about renewable energy resources, please visit our <a href=\"why-renewables\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Renewables<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing our Energy Future: Solutions from the Land American&#8217;s farms, ranches and forests-our working lands-are well positioned to make significant contributions to the development and implementation of new energy solutions. Long known and respected for their contributions to providing the nation&#8217;s food and fiber, an emerging opportunity exists for crop, livestock and grass and horticultural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionsfromtheland.org\/25x25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionsfromtheland.org\/25x25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionsfromtheland.org\/25x25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionsfromtheland.org\/25x25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionsfromtheland.org\/25x25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionsfromtheland.org\/25x25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4022,"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionsfromtheland.org\/25x25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/4022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionsfromtheland.org\/25x25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionsfromtheland.org\/25x25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solutionsfromtheland.org\/25x25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}