USDA Guidelines for Regenerative Biofuel Feedstock Crops
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The rule updates USDA technical guidelines for measuring and verifying the carbon intensity of agricultural crops used to make biofuels. It gives farm producers a framework to calculate how approved farming practices change net emissions compared with a national average. The main impact is on farmers, biofuel feedstock suppliers, biofuel producers, and supply-chain verifiers. Businesses in the biofuel market may need to collect field-level data, document approved practices, and track emissions information through the supply chain.
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Key Changes
- Revises USDA guidelines for quantifying, reporting, and verifying carbon intensity of biofuel feedstock crops
- Creates a field-scale approach for producers to measure emission changes from approved farming practices
- Sets a framework for tracking emissions information through the biofuel feedstock supply chain
Obligations
What this law requires
Farm producers that use the USDA guidelines must quantify the change in net emissions for biofuel feedstock commodity crops produced using one or more authorized agricultural practices.
Entities applying the USDA carbon-intensity guidelines must quantify carbon intensity for covered agricultural commodities at the field scale relative to an estimated national average.
Entities participating in the biofuel feedstock supply chain under the USDA framework should report and track emissions information associated with production of biofuel feedstock commodity crops throughout the supply chain.
Entities relying on carbon-intensity claims under the USDA guidelines must support implementation, reporting, verification, and quantification of carbon intensity for covered agricultural commodities.