While research into the sustainability and income potential of switchgrass started in the mid-1980s, the awareness of this plant as a high-yielding, perennial source of biomass has increased over the decades. Companies that value sustainability have focused on the plant’s resiliency as a renewable, tree-free source of material for producing ag-fiber products. As a [...]
Family farms used to be commonplace here in East Tennessee, but over the years, that mainstay of rural life has grown scarce. The agriculture industry is changing, and the family farms that are still thriving had to change with it. For many of them, that meant diversification. In the past, East Tennessee farmers could produce [...]
East Tennessee company invites growers and landowners in the Tennessee River Valley to join its plant-based manufacturing enterprise VONORE, Tenn. – Dec. 17, 2019 – Genera, a Tennessee-based company manufacturing domestically sourced and produced ag-based pulp and molded fiber products, is currently recruiting local and regional agricultural partners to supply the company’s commercial-scale sustainable ag-fiber [...]
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 [...]
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