Sentences with phrase «acre than soybeans»
We calculate that growing lipidcane containing 20 percent oil would be five times more profitable per acre than soybeans, the main feedstock currently used to make biodiesel in the United States, and twice as profitable per acre as corn.
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At the same time, projections for total planted US corn and soy acreage was reduced as farmers shifted to other crops; they are, however, expected to plant more soybeans than corn for the first time in 35 years.5 Brazilian corn acres also showed a downward bias.
Although production from oil palms is limited to tropical and subtropical regions, the crop yields much more biodiesel per acre than do temperate - zone oilseeds such as soybeans and rapeseed.
«When we started Forest Trends our goal was to of create incentives around ecosystem services, to make standing tropical forest more valuable than an acre of soybeans,» says Michael Jenkins, President and CEO of Forest Trends.
«So, in a sense, making that tropical forest more valuable than an acre of soybeans.»
According to wikipedia «Soybeans can produce at least twice as much protein per acre than any other major vegetable or grain crop, 5 to 10 times more protein per acre than land set aside for grazing animals to make milk, and up to 15 times more protein per acre than land set aside for meat production.»
No one was happier than Danny Murphy, a Mississippi soybean farmer with 1,500 acres, when the Senate on Tuesday passed a farm bill that expanded crop insurance and other benefits for agribusiness.
Led by David Tilman, a biology professor at the University of Minnesota, the research shows that «mixtures of native perennial grasses and other flowering plants provide more usable energy per acre than corn grain ethanol or soybean biodiesel and are far better for the environment,» according to a release from the University of Minnesota.