Nick Cuchetti, a farmer and board secretary of Missouri Organic Association, holds biochar at Oaklee Rose Farm in Luebbering, Missouri. Biochar is an organic waste material that can help improve soil ...

Opponents of Saratoga Biochar Solutions spoke out against the proposed plant in January 2024 at South Glens Falls High School auditorium. Saratoga Biochar Solutions CEO Ray Apy tells the Saratoga ...

When Beauregard Burgess and three friends decided to start a hog and poultry farm in 2015, they chose an odd location: 20 acres of swampy land on the east side of Homer, Alaska, a coastal hamlet south ...

Biochar is a form of charcoal (mostly carbon) produced by heating organic matter in the absence of oxygen, a process called pyrolysis. This avoids the production of carbon dioxide and locks up the ...

Biochar traps microorganisms that can sequester carbon emissions in the soil for long periods of time, lessening farmers’ environmental impact. It can also help farmers by holding things like ...

CAMARILLO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VGrid Energy Systems, a California-based clean energy producer, announced today it has earned the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Certified Biobased Product ...

Most people probably don't think about soil as a living thing. But it is filled with millions of tiny organisms that play a critical role in everything soil does—including sequestering carbon.

Biochar is a soil-improvement material with great potential for a variety of applications. It is similar to charcoal and barbecue charcoal, but biochar is produced specifically to be added to arable ...