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months, they don’t make any money. The land is the potential for Nuseed Carinata to reduce
sitting there doing nothing … But with carinata emissions, remove atmospheric carbon and
coming in it’s a win-win for the environment, restore soil carbon and health,” Clayton wrote
a win-win for carbon climate change and defi- in an email to Agri-Pulse.
nitely win-win for farmers.” “Our independently certified program requires

One company that has been working to develop Nuseed Carinata not displace food production,
a carinata seed for biofuel cover crops is Nuseed, and instead contributes to it through its co-prod-
which has distributors in several different coun- uct traceable source of plant protein, or require
tries. Nuseed Carinata is in its third year of additional farmland when it’s grown. Both
commercial sales in Argentina. are very critical to maximizing our impact on
carbon reduction with minimal impact on food
Alex Clayton, the Nuseed Carinata global
business development leader, said the company production.”
is currently doing research on land in Geor- Meanwhile, CoverCress is targeting farmers in
gia, Florida and Texas, and hopes to launch the Midwest. In 2021, the first year of commer-
commercial programs in the U.S. within the cial plantings for CoverCress, producers from
next three years. The company has also been Missouri and Illinois have planted about 500
lobbying Congress on “the use of cover crops acres of the crop.
for advanced biofuels,” according to disclosure “We can be a really important solution to this
records.
feedstock deficit that the industry faces, and
“We would like to see biofuel policy in the U.S., we’re never going to be the solution,” said
in the EU and worldwide that fully recognizes DeCamp, the CoverCress president and CEO.

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