Services Provided by Biomass Rules, LLC

• Biomass Rules Specialties - As a nation, we collect data on a tiny portion of biomass production. Mostly that data is related to traditional agricultural and forestry commodities. Some biomass data is collected on wastes. If we only use the bits of data that we have the way they have always been used, we will never get anywhere. Biomass Rules, LLC takes the limited data we have to places we have never gone before. It is a new frontier.

  • Community Biomass Inventories - biomass inventories include an estimate of annual energy use, an inventory of available biomass, and a review of conversion technologies. Based on these three components, estimates of energy use that can be replaced by biomass can be developed.

  • BioTown, USA (Reynolds, Indiana)

  • San Benito County, California

  • Biomass Economic Vision - These projects involve taking available datasets and using them in new ways like standarizing energy, agricultural and waste product prices based on energy content (Energy Values). Also looking for regulatory models that are working efficiently (achieving desired outcome at a low cost), and fitting them to exising regulatory situations that are not working well.

    • Weekly Price/Energy Values

    • Innovative Regulatory Insights

• Standard Analyses

  • Value-added Feasibility Studies

  • Anaerobic digesters

  • Composting operations

  • Fuel pellet mills

  • Bioenergy/bio-based Product analysis

  • Review and comparison of related or conflicting regulations

  • Statistical analysis of private and public datasets

  • Manure management planning

• Custom Analyses - With a PhD in agricultural economics, I am a card-carrying quantitative analyst. I have experience in cleaning survey data or finding obscure datasets for special projects. I can systematically develop an analysis or literature review on most anything. Here are some of the site-specific topics I have analyzed:

  • Structure of livestock industry

  • Analysis of ag production/grower contracts

  • Allocation of Land Grant university spending on production agriculture

  • Comparison of 2002 Census of Ag (USDA-NASS) land use data with 2002

  NRI (USDA-NRCS) land use data

• Provocative Conference Presentations - We have spoken to biomass energy conferences, agricultural trainings and conferences, and environmental and waste conferences on a wide range compelling topics.

• Custom Maps and Datasets - We have use ArcGIS/ArcView, Adobe graphic products, Filemaker Pro, SPSS, in addition to having excellent skills with MS Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint software products.  In addition to graphics created for proprietary client reports, all the graphics on this website and in Burning Bio News have been created by Biomass Rules, LLC.

By 108th U.S. Congressional District [farms, acres, animals, economic and demographic data for U.S. Congressional Districts. Districts with greatest value = most of the land area.]	click on map to see in .pdf
By County [this map shows manure-applied crop land (acres) divided by fertilizer-applied cropland acres. Download sample Excel file]	click on map to see in .pdf click here to see data in Excel format
By Zip Code [Data from the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) can be modified for maps based on zip codes. Download sample Access file]	click on map to see in .pdf click here to see data in Access format