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White House Should Move Beyond E15, Boost Biofuel’s Economic, Environmental, National Security and Public Health Benefits
White House officials are reportedly engaged in talks with biofuel industry representatives, as well as with other fuel and food groups (the Food Manufacturing Coalition, the American Bakers Association and the American Petroleum Institute, among them) to ponder changes to the amount of corn-based ethanol and other clean fuels U.S. refiners must blend...
Emissions Challenge Must Be Met with Political Will, Smart Production Practices
A comprehensive analysis released by EPA last month shows domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and sinks across all sectors from 1990 through 2020. While there is fluctuation in the totals recorded in each of the 30 years analyzed, they generally trend up. Over the period, agriculture's overall emissions were lowest in 1991, when 543 million metric...
Producers Remain the Greatest Resource in Addressing Livestock Health Issues
Reports last week of a Colorado man being the first human in the United States to test positive for the H5N1 strain of avian flu (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, also known as HPAI) raised many red flags in state and local health departments across the country. The USDA says the highly contagious H5N1 virus has spread among bird populations in more...
LCAs Offer Ag a Valuable Tool When Countering Misguided Criticisms
In the course of developing agriculture and food production policy, experts aid policy makers by developing a lifecycle assessment (LCA) of an element of that policy as needed. An LCA is a tool for analyzing the environmental impacts and resources used throughout a product's life. An LCA is the outcome of a process that involves considering all relevant...
SfL Takes Pride in Joining Others in the Celebration of Earth Day
Today is Earth Day and Solutions from the Land is proud to use this special occasion to celebrate the accomplishments of our growing network of farmer, rancher and forester leaders who work every day to improve the sustainability of their operations and the environment. For them, their life work is not an either/or proposition. It's a both/and approach...
Boost in Ethanol Renews the False Food Versus Fuel Argument
The news out of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics this week was pretty brutal. The agency said that over the past 12 months, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased – on a seasonally adjusted basis – by 8.5 percent, the highest annual increase in 31 years. While gasoline has been on an upward rise for the past year, events...
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