Biorenewable Resources Blog

Wood: the Pluses, the Minuses, and the Neutrals Is wood good? Wood is all around us from forests all the way to the chair you sit in to eat dinner. Wood is a necessary product that we as consumers have relied on for years. Believe it or not there is a lot more that goes into the production of wood and paper products. We will be diving deeper into the process of bringing wood from a forest to lumber, building with wood, and the overall question if wood is good. By the end of this blog, I hope that you can confidently tell someone if wood is good.  For a lot of people, we think that wood gets cut down from a forest and is chopped up into perfect pieces and brought straight to the store; but this isn’t the case. A lot of thought is put into the process of trees being cut down. Selection harvests are very popular for picking specific tree groups to cut down based on size, species, ect. This ensures that trees are being harvested every 40-50 years. Clear-cutting is also popular. This in...

All Feedstocks, Biorenewables Included, Have to be Sourced from Somewhere As our population continues to grow so does the supply and demand of crops. Corn and soybean are two crops in high demand due to being used in a lot of everyday products. In this blog we are going to dive deeper into the differences between natural and plantation forests, the resources that are being implemented to protect forests, and what we can expect for the future.  Natural forests are found all around us and that's because they take up 90% of the forests in the United States. Natural forests do not use fertilizers, pesticides, or genetically modified species. While natural forests are good for the environment they don’t produce as much wood yield as Plantations. Plantations are becoming more popular as the population continues to grow. Plantations are made to maximize production of wood in the United States. Plantations use fertilizer, and genetically modified soil to produce wood and crops 10 times fas...