Methods for producing reduced carbon footprint biofuels

A method for producing reduced carbon footprint biofuels, wherein the method comprises an agricultural aspect and a production aspect, wherein:

• the agricultural aspect comprises cultivating farmland in which plants that will serve as biofuel feedstock are, or will be, grown using at least one technique that:
• enhances soil nutrient and moisture content and dispersion, enhances plant health and growth, reduces nitrogen-rich fertilizer usage, reduces soil greenhouse gas emissions, and/or enhances carbon sequestration in soil and/or plant matter;
• and
• the production aspect comprises harvesting the plants as feedstock and converting the feedstock into a biofuel or biofuel component,
• wherein the agricultural aspect results in reduced greenhouse gas emissions compared with traditional agricultural techniques, thereby reducing the carbon footprint of producing biofuel feedstocks and/or biofuels, and
• wherein the techniques for growing the plants comprise applying a microbe-based soil treatment composition comprising one or more soil colonizing microorganisms and/or microbial growth by-products to the farmland, wherein the one or more microorganisms are selected from Trichoderma harzianum, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, Meyerozyma MEC14XN, Meyerozyma guillermondii and Wickerhamomyces anomalus.