Reshaping American Agriculture to Meet its Biofuel and Biopolymer Roles

NABC Report 20:

Reshaping American Agriculture to Meet its Biofuel and Biopolymer Roles (2008)

Contents

Introduction

Part I — Conference Overview

• Reshaping American Agriculture to Meet its Biofuel and Biopolymer Roles (Steven A. Slack & Mary Wicks)

Part II — Breakout Sessions

• Workshops Summary (Allan Eaglesham & Ralph W.F. Hardy)

Part III — Plenary Sessions

• Module I: Megatrends Reshaping American Agriculture
  • Renewable Fuels and Materials (John Pierce)
  • Megatrends Reshaping American Agriculture and Agricultural Universities (Steven G. Pueppke)
  • Energy Independence: On-Site Fuel Cell Systems Operating on Biofuels (Benson P. Lee)
  • What Future Role for Biofuels? (Peter Ashcroft)
  • Q & A
• Module II: Optimizing the Value of Co-Products and Byproducts
  • Renewable Polymers and Advanced Materials (Stephen C. Myers)
  • ARS Research on Bioenergy and Co-Products (Robert L. Fireovid)
  • Biomass as a Source of Carbon: The Conversion of Renewable Feedstocks into Chemicals and Materials (Joseph J. Bozell)
  • Panel discussion/Q & A (David K. Jones, John Lumpe, Charlie Carr)
• Module III: Enhancing Productivity of Biofeedstocks
  • Opportunities for Enhancing the Productivity of Biofeedstocks and Minimizing Inputs: Theory and Practice (Stephen P. Long)
  • High-tonnage dedicated Energy Crops: The Potential of Sorghum and Energy Cane (Bill F. McCutchen, Robert V. Avant Jr. & David Baltensperger)
  • Synchronization of Biofeedstocks and Conversion technologies: Current Status and Future Prospects (David I. Bransby)
  • Panel discussion/Q & A (Frederick C. Michel, Jr., Dwayne Siekman, Tom L. Richard)
• Module IV: Policy Issues Impacting Agriculture and Bioenergy
  • Agricultural Biofuels: Two Ethical Issues (Paul B. Thompson)
  • The Social Cost and Benefits of US Biofuel Policies (Harry de Gorter & David R. Just)
  • Scientific Challenges Underpinning the Food-Versus-Fuel debate (Kenneth G. Cassman)
  • Panel discussion/Q & A (Doug O’Brien, Matthew C. Roberts, Chris Schmid)

Part IV — Banquet & Luncheon Presentations

• Biobased Economic Growth in Ohio (Ted Strickland)
• Agriculture: The Foundation of the Bioeconomy (Ganesh M. Kishore)
• Supporting Cross-Cutting Research: The Agricultural Bioproducts Innovation Program (Christiane Deslauriers)
• Energy transformations in a Land-grant College: The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (Irwin L. Goldman)
• View from the President’s Office: The Power of Partnerships (E. Gordon Gee)

Part V — The Student Voice at NABC 20

• Student Voice Report (Karunanithy Chinnaduari, Fang Cong, Mary Carol Frier, Darby Harris, Sarah Kiger, Srilakshmi Makkena , Lisa Meihls , Mitch Minarick, John Schumm, Sachin Teotia, Thu Vuong, Lee-Ann Walter, Ellen Wan, Xiaomin Yu, Yajuan Zeng & Qiujie Zheng)

Part VI — Participants

Part VII — Index

For Agriculture: The Foundation of the Bioeconomy (Ganesh M. Kishore) more details, please click:

http://nabc.cals.cornell.edu/pubs/nabc_20/NABC20_Part_4b-Kishore.pdf