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New Models for Bioenergy Feedstock Supply and Project Implementation
1. New Models for Bioenergy Feedstock Supply
and Project Implementation
Nick Jordan
Plant Genetics Department
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
National Agroforestry Center
Nick Jordan, Department of Agronomy & Plant Genetics
Carissa Slotterback, Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Dr. David Mulla, Department of Soil, Water and Climate
Dr. David Pitt, Department of Landscape Architecture
Len Kne, U-Spatial
Mike Reichenbach, Extension
Bryan Runck, Department of Geography
Amanda Sames, Conservation Biology
Program
Cindy Zerger, Toole Design Group
2. Agriculture:
Transforming & Intensifying
….from a few predominant crops and
commodities to a wide array of new
foods, feeds, bioproducts and biofuels.
…can we capitalize on the potential of
this new agriculture to improve
environment, economy, well-being?
3. How? Focus on
Sustainable Intensification
Agriculture
must produce
more food,
food security
& justice
Agriculture
must produce
more food &
food security
More
conservation
…amidst
global change
4. Minnesota Agriculture is Very Efficient & Productive
Our Agriculture could be even more
efficient and productive
How: Add winter-annual crops & perennials to
summer-annual crops like corn or soybean
Why:
New economic
opportunities for
farmers &
rural communities
Many other
benefits for
Minnesota
Visualization of perennial & annual crops in Central Iowa
5. Biomass from Annuals & Perennials
• A powerful vehicle for Sustainable
Intensification of Corn Belt agriculture?
• More production & more conservation
Key:
emerging
value-
added
tech for
biomass!
16. Social value from locally-owned processing
• Sited like grain
elevators
• Use many feedstocks
• Retain value in local
communities: owned
by producer coops?
• Market to livestock
farmers OR
biorefineries
17. Getting There from Here: How?
AFEX depends on developing new
production systems & supply/value
chains
KSU Extension
Local Biomass
Preprocessing
Depots (LBPDs)
Landscape Design
can help identify
biomass production
systems that provide
a stable, reliable
biomass supply &
more conservation!
18. Our Agriculture Can Be Even More Efficient & Productive
Biomass from Annuals & Perennials:
• Creates value from underused resources
• Enhances soil, water, wildlife & biodiversity
• Insures against climate variability
BUT…
what
Biomass from
where?
19. Application
Seven Mile Creek Watershed
Building a Community-
based Bioeconomy
Engaging diverse stakeholders
Examining information – food,
biomass, water quality, habitat
Identifying values
Designing for biomass
production
Exploring tradeoffs,
prospects for win-win
24,000 acres
20. Application
Workshop series with stakeholders
Agriculture, conservation, &
governance stakeholders
Initial workshops – framing/
data on production, dialogue
on issues and values
Latter workshops – active
geodesign with visualization,
landscape design, evaluation
21. Application
Examining information and identifying
values
Productive capacity –
food, biomass
Environmental impacts –
water quality, habitat
Local knowledge
Translating values into
criteria for landscape
design
win + win + win + win
22. Application
Designing for biomass with Geodesign
Goal: More commodities
and more conservation from
working agricultural
landscapes
Collaborative
Geodesign allows for
active, real-time
engagement with
information, place, + people Carl Steinitz. 2012.A Framework for Geodesign:
Changing Geography by Design. Redlands, CA:
ESRI
23. Application
Designing for biomass with Geodesign
Geodesign system
55” touchscreens
Multiple orientation + data
layers
Users control presence +
transparency of layers
Users design with multiple
practices
Images of visual appearance
of practices
Instantaneous performance
feedback
Allows multiple iterations
Roads + water features
Section boundaries
Land cover + topography
Watershed boundaries
Restorable wetlands
Habitat quality
Soil erosion + water quality
contamination susceptibility
Crop productivity
Total suspended solids
Phosphorus
Total runoff
Habitat quality
Carbon sequestration
Financial profitability
Conservation
tillage
Low phosphorus
Stover harvest
Native prairie
Switchgrass
29. Outcomes
Application
Deliberation + design activities increased
participants’ belief in the potential value of
working agricultural landscapes for
sustainable intensification
Increased perceptions of trust + shared
understanding with other stakeholders
Workshops viewed as legitimate, credible
forum for exploring prospect of sustainable
bioeconomy
30. Outcomes
Application
Participant feedback:
These workshops were
like a fast-forward for the evolution
of a conversation – from the very
simplistic agriculture-vs.-environment
conflict to a much more nuanced,
complicated and respectful
understanding of costs, benefits, trade-
offs and perspectives surrounding the
potential of biomass production to be a
driving force of positive outcomes for
multiple
interests”
Process
resulted in
thinking deeper
about equilibrium
between
environment/
economy
Process
facilitated
thinking about
all systems
and how
integrated they
are
Helped see
prospect of
multiple
benefits from
one practice
31. Next Steps
Seven Mile Creek Watershed
Building a Community-
based Bioeconomy
Build on stakeholder engagement + design for biomass
Design supply chain
Address sustainable stover harvest
Advance cover crop technology
Assess policy impacts
Pursue community economic development benefits
Exploring tradeoffs, prospects for win-win
32. Thank you! Questions?
Additional project team members:
Dr. David Mulla, Department of Soil, Water and Climate
Dr. David Pitt, Department of Landscape Architecture
Len Kne, U-Spatial
Mike Reichenbach, Extension
Bryan Runck, Department of Geography
Amanda Sames, Conservation Biology Program
Cindy Zerger, Toole Design Group
Funding provided by:
USDA-NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant Program
Office of the Vice President for Research
Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment
Institute on the Environment
33. What’s the Story?
A case study of sustainable development
Widely seen as complex/wicked problem,
requiring transdisciplinarity, civic
engagement…
What does it look like to try to do those
things in practice?