Bunge将新的可再生油籽和动物饲料带入市场

BungeandCovercress Inc.宣布了独特的商业合作伙伴关系，将新的可再生油料和动物饲料作物推向市场。

The agreement establishes a long-term commercial relationship between the two companies and supports the expansion of CCI’s CoverCress™ technology, a new winter oilseed crop that is ideal as a lower carbon intensity feedstock to help meet the growing demand for renewable fuels.

通过复杂的育种和基因编辑，CCI将冬季杂草的田间pennycress转化为覆盖式作物，该作物适合现有的玉米和大豆旋转。

在冬季，在现有土地上添加一种新的可销售农作物可以为农民提供额外的收入，同时还提供覆盖作物的生态系统益处；掩护农作物可提供覆盖范围，减少氮损失并改善整体土壤健康。

Bunge首席执行官Greg Heckman说：“ Bunge很高兴扩大我们与CCI的关系，以继续发展下一代低碳原料，这也将有助于满足日益增长的可再生燃料需求。”

"We believe rotational cover crops will play a key role in our strategy in connection with the recently announcedpartnership with Chevron。我们共同承诺对可持续性和减少价值链中的碳的承诺。”

How this fits in with Chevron JV

Bunge Ventures是Bunge的营利性全球投资部门，于2021年4月在CCI领导了A系列B-1融资，最近通过C-1系列赛增加了其在CCI的股份。

补充Bunge和CCI之间的商业协议，CCI，Chevron U.S.A. Inc.，雪佛龙公司。还通过C-1系列融资收购了CCI的所有权。邦格和雪佛龙有宣布合资这将产生原料来提供快速增长的可再生燃料行业。

“Chevron continues its efforts to build a leading renewable fuels business by investing in all parts of the value chain,” said Mark Nelson, executive vice president of Downstream and Chemicals for Chevron.

“这项对CCI的投资促进了我们为确保我们即将与Bunge的合资企业获得较低碳强度，可靠原料的多样化来源的努力。”

Under the commercial partnership between CCI and Bunge, CCI will supply CoverCress grain produced under contract with farmers to Bunge for processing. The strategic partnerships among Chevron, Bunge and CCI create a dedicated farm-to-fuel supply chain for the low carbon intensity oil feedstock produced from CoverCress grain.

“我们将气候智能农业产品的发展和绩效的进步我们称为CoverCress™，再加上我们与Bunge和Chevron建立战略合作伙伴关系的扩展，将加速我们与种植者的商业化工作的节奏，以及价值主张of our company," said Mike DeCamp, CCI’s CEO.

“农民是使我们的掩护技术能够降低柴油和喷气燃料的碳强度有所不同的关键。这就是为什么该协议如此至关重要的原因 - 它使我们和我们的农民合作伙伴能够从超低碳晶粒的独特方面赚取更多的收入，而不仅仅是商品价值。”

什么是掩护？

掩护is a new oilseed crop grown over winter between normal full season corn and soybeans. It acts like a cover crop while also producing oil and high protein feed that can fit markets similar to canola. CoverCress was developed from pennycress.

Native pennycress grain has high levels of erucic, fiber and sinigrin, which are compounds that limit the oil and meal use, but we have developed varieties that have a new composition and make CoverCress a brand new crop for the American Midwest, without the limitations that native pennycress has.

传统的覆盖作物是种植但未收获的。它们成长为保护和改善土壤。掩护既是覆盖作物，又是生产性作物，将土壤改善和谷物生产结合在一起而不取代其他农作物。

-饲料和谷物人员