Rural Matters: Landus Comments on Farm Practices for 45Z Credit



The USDA recently issued a Request for Information (RFI) to gather input and data to evaluate procedures for quantifying, reporting, and verifying the effect of climate-smart farming practices on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with U.S.-grown biofuel feedstock crops. Input from this RFI will help with the long-awaited development of guidelines for the 45Z tax credit. This tax program provides green fuel producers with a monetary incentive to drive down the carbon intensity (CI) score of their end fuel, and for the first time will account for farm-level practice changes to be incorporated into the ultimate score, thus driving more value down to the farm.There were 260 unique comments submitted into USDA. You can review all of those public comments online, or jump directly to the Landus comments. Below are the key themes we outlined to USDA:






























