
Based out of Homerville, Georgia, Conner Holdings utilizes the surrounding southern yellow pine within the Pine Belt in its sawmill-to-pellet production. IMAGE: STELA DRYING TECHNOLOGY
October 7, 2025
BY Caitlin Scheresky
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U.S. manufacturers produced approximately 960,000 tons of densified biomass fuel in July, according to the U.S. EIA’s Monthly Densified Biomass Fuels Report. Sales of densified biomass fuel reached 1 million tons during the month.
The USDA and NASA on Oct. 24 signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will strengthen USDA’s data quality and help ensure that American farmers and ranchers benefit from and have access to cutting-edge technologies.
The EU Deforestation Regulation will make traceability a market access requirement for wood pellets. For producers, the challenge is not only collecting documents but turning fragmented supply chain data into an audit-ready system.
USDA NIFA on Oct. 7 announced it has awarded $3.2 million in funding to six projects that support research on the social implications of emerging technologies. One of the projects focuses on biomass supply chains.
Instrumented farm-scale flat-die pellet production, experimental data and machine learning are being combined to make biomass pelleting more predictable across changing feedstocks and operating conditions.