As demonstrated, the decision-support model can assist in facilitating the transformative shift towards the production of high value end-products, bio-energy feed stocks, carbon credits, and ecosystem services, currently underway within the Canadian forest sector.
Olive and Rubicon consciously focus on the 'small-scale, high-value end'.
However, hemp does have a number of high-value end uses.
These include traditional vinyl-based end uses, such as paints and coatings and adhesives, as well as other unique, high-value end uses including solar cells and medical applications.
Furthermore, SSF offers a biological process to convert cheap, under-utilized agro-industrial wastes (either as carbon/energy source or as an inert carrier) into high-value end products such as organic acids, flavour and aroma compounds, secondary metabolites, and industrially relevant enzymes [ 6].
To see how the technique applies here, let's assume we are trying to estimate the value of the option at the end of year two under a scenario in which the plant has a current value of $1.44 billion (the highest-value end-of-year-two scenario).
Interest rates have never been cheaper if you want a five-figure personal loan from your bank – but if you're borrowing a smaller sum, it's far more expensive; it's the higher- value end of the market in which lenders are interested.
High values of end-tidal carbon dioxide with only moderate exertion may be associated with a diminished tolerance to oxygen neurotoxicity, a condition that, if it occurs underwater, places the diver at great risk.
The manipulability of the ruminal system to form higher value fermentation end-products in vitro is clear, and it is a system worthy of further study to identify other, more practical interventions for shifting end product distribution, for potential use on an industrial scale.
