{"id":109205,"date":"2020-06-27T11:53:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/smart-farms-of-the-future-making-bioenergy-crops-more-environmentally-friendly"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:53:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:53:25","slug":"smart-farms-of-the-future-making-bioenergy-crops-more-environmentally-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/smart-farms-of-the-future-making-bioenergy-crops-more-environmentally-friendly","title":{"rendered":"Smart farms of the future: Making bioenergy crops more environmentally friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smart-farms-of-the-future-making-bioenergy-crops-more-environmentally-friendly2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Farmers have enough worries\u2014between bad weather, rising costs, and shifting market demands\u2014without having to stress about the carbon footprint of their operations. But now a new set of projects by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), including scientists at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), could make agriculture both more sustainable and more profitable.<\/p>\n<p>The three projects, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), leverage Berkeley Lab\u2019s strengths in artificial intelligence, sensors, and ecological biology. They aim to quantify and reduce the carbon intensity of agriculture, including the farming of biofuel feedstocks such as corn, soy, and sorghum, while also increasing yield.<\/p>\n<p>Crop-based biofuels have the potential to supply up to about 5% of U.S. energy demand, according to the DOE. Two of the new projects are part of the SMARTFARM program of DOE\u2019s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). This initiative aspires to make the biofuel supply chain carbon negative\u2014meaning it removes or sequesters more carbon than it emits\u2014which would greatly improve biofuel\u2019s benefits to the broader economy and environment. Scientists also hope that the increased productivity will have the effect of lowering costs and increasing farmers\u2019 income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers have enough worries\u2014between bad weather, rising costs, and shifting market demands\u2014without having to stress about the carbon footprint of their operations. But now a new set of projects by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), including scientists at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), could make agriculture both more sustainable and more profitable. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,39,1506,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-economics","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}