As the agriculture sector accelerates toward more resilient systems, the search for climate-smart crops continues to gather pace. Innovation in crop systems is key to unlocking solutions that deliver resilience, productivity, and lower carbon outcomes.
This webinar explores the potential of winter camelina, an oilseed crop advancing through research, innovation, and on-farm trial, as part of a broader push for crop diversification and low-carbon fuel feedstocks.
Planted in the fall and harvested in early summer, camelina provides living cover through the off-season while also being harvested and sold as a cash crop – an uncommon combination that creates a new incentive for farmers to keep soil covered longer.
We’ll discuss…
- How crop innovation and R&D are supporting more resilient and profitable farming systems
- The role of winter camelina in crop diversification, soil health, and lower-carbon outcomes
- The importance of farmer engagement, partnerships, and on–farm trials in driving adoption
- What lessons from camelina can be applied to broader climate–smart agriculture strategies
We'll be hearing from
Lyle DePauw is the Director of Crop Innovation at Cargill. Throughout his nearly 25-year career, Lyle has built deep expertise in crop production, seed innovation and commercialization. That experience has helped him connect supply chains end to end – from developing specialty oilseeds to helping build contracting programs and commercial processes in the U.S. and Canada.
Mitch Hunter, PhD, is Co-Director of the Forever Green Initiative at the University of Minnesota. Forever Green is developing and improving winter-hardy annual and perennial crops that protect soil and water while driving new economic opportunities for growers, industry, and rural communities. Winter camelina is a leading Forever Green crop with high potential as a low-carbon biofuel feedstock.
Anna Teeter is the Novel Oilseeds Program Manager at Cargill, previously she was a conversation agronomist. Her mission is to bring new economic and sustainable solutions that make sense for farmers. Anna brings extensive hands-on experience having worked with the University of Wisconsin-Madison extension services, private ag consulting services, and the Soil Health Partnership. She has a Bachelor of Science in Agronomy and Life Sciences Communications and a Masters of Science in Soil Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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