b'Nuseed estimates that by planting just 1.5% of that esti-mated existing cropland to non-food Nuseed carinata, it has the WEVE HAD THE STRATEGY TO INCREASEpotential to annually produce 1 billion gallons of sustainable aviation fuel from 2030 and the potential to annually remove 8 YIELDS AND NOT ACREAGE, AND BREEDINGmillion metric tons of CO 2 , Ingalls says.Nuseed is currently scaling sustainable carinata contract FOR YIELD INCREASE WILL CONTINUEBUTproduction in both South America and the southern U.S., with ALSO ULTIMATELY OVER THE NEXT DECADE,development programs underway in Europe and Australia. WELL SEE THE RESULTS OF BREEDING FORMaximizing Each OunceScientists like Ryan Stoklosa, research chemical engineer and INCREASED SEGREGATION OF OIL PROFILESlead scientist of the Sustainable Biofuels and Co-Products Research Unit at the U.S. Department of Agriculture FOR ALL THREE CANOLA END USESFOOD,Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS), are also looking FEED AND FUEL.for opportunities to boost biofuels sustainability. His team is exploring methods to maximize ethanol yield from every ounceCurtis Rempel of corn grain or other form of plant biomass.This strategy also leads us to research processing options to develop a more favourable fermentation process that can best utilize these sugars in current corn ethanol mills, he says. of biofuel opportunity, the hybrid offers a consistent oil contentTo do this, we are looking at incorporating other fermentable (percentages in the mid-40s), Ingalls says, and comes withsugars from corn fibre or the remaining corn stalks after harvest built-in certified sustainable contracts from Nuseed. This isinto ethanol fermentation. just hybrid offering of hopefully many, says Ingalls, who addsThe corn wet-milling process removes corn fibre from the that the potential for breeding improvements is high.grain, explains Stoklosa, and since this component is enriched Rabobank estimates there are 170 million hectares of exist- in carbohydrates, the process can recover and reincorporate the ing farmland in Europe and the Americas that could benefitfibre ethanol fermentation. In a similar way, scientists can col-from cover cropping.lect and chemically pre-treat the remaining corn stalks, allow-26GERMINATION.CAJANUARY 2024'