Sustainable Production
Sustainable feedstock production includes all of the steps required to produce biomass feedstocks to the point they are ready to be collected or harvested from the field or forest. These steps include plant breeding and genomics, crop selection, crop development, and ultimately crop production. USDA and the DOE Office of Science are primarily leading Federal research in these areas. DOE Biomass Program work in the area of Sustainable Feedstock Production is conducted in conjunction with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and through Regional Biomass Energy Feedstock Partnerships, led by the Sun Grant Initiative Universities. Work focuses on three main areas of R&D: Resource Assessment, Resource Development,