Introducing Bioenergy for a Possibly More Sustainable Agriculture

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Posted On: September 11

To make agriculture truly sustainable, the United States would need to overhaul several factors in energy consumption, but probably any effort at all is good effort. According to the ERS (Economic Research Service) a department under the USDA, ethanol is the leading bioenergy fuel used in commercial agriculture. Derived from corn, ethonol is produced through industrial fermentation, chemical processing and distillation. While that doesn't sound very sustainable, neither is processing crude oil, so it's a step in the right direction.

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