We’re sure you’ve heard it. Come November, your non-farmer friends might look at you and say, “It’s your slow season, right? Bet you’re getting some rest and relaxation!” But we know there’s no such thing as a slow season for a farmer. Every season — spring, summer, fall and even winter — has its own [...]
How to Support Rising Generations Too many people today think of farming as something their grandparents did but no way to make a living in the modern world. In the U.S., more farmers are retiring than entering the occupation. Farmers over age 65 outnumber the under-35 set by more than six to one, according to [...]
Genera is Recruiting East Tennessee Farmers to Grow Feedstock The farming industry has changed, and it just keeps right on changing. Anyone who grew up in East Tennessee will tell you back in the day you’d see huge fields of tobacco and corn or large herds of beef cattle on local farms. One or two [...]
Genera Energy's Sam Jackson discusses the significance of a recent poplar tree harvest at the University of Tennessee AgResearch Center. The harvest is part of a five-year $15 million multi-disciplinary research and development effort funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
As renewable energy and renewable product demands grow, creative locations for biomass conversion facilities are evolving to allow for unique comparative advantage opportunities such as co-location synergies with pre-existing facilities and access into particular demand markets or by-product offtake markets. Moreover, dedicated energy crops can be very geographically concentrated and sometimes these unique facility opportunities [...]
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) for aerial surveillance and reconnaissance in military applications is well known. What is likely less common is the use of these types of aircraft for monitoring agricultural crops, land management, and sustainability measures. UAVs offer great promise in agriculture. […]
Did you realize that the United States Department of Defense uses over 117 million barrels of oil per year (2011)? That’s over 13 million gallons of fuel per day! According to Forbes, in 2007, the military was using 16 gallons per soldier per day (about $3 million in purchases each day). The US Military is [...]
Current Biomass Crop Invasiveness Ratings Crops that are attractive for biomass production often exhibit invasive tendencies. Crops that produce high yields of biomass grow fast, have dense canopies that shade out competitors, and are often perennial, sprouting year after year to hold a site. While these tendencies are desired in energy crops, they can become [...]
Genera Energy recently introduced its newest feedstock management system module, BIN-SPEC™. A proprietary preprocessing system, BIN-SPEC delivers a consistent biomass product to a customer’s specifications with the least amount of variability and at a lower cost. Along with Genera’s other feedstock management systems, Energy Grange™ and Supply ASSURE™, BIN-SPEC was developed through years of R&D [...]
Imagine a chef in his or her kitchen, experimenting with new dishes to serve to their fans. Various ingredients are found throughout the kitchen. Perhaps things like flour, sugar, salt, oil, eggs, milk, and so on. Each one of these individual ingredients is unique, produced by different farmers or companies. Eggs may come from down [...]
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