Steve Kaffka

The company has partnered with Stephen Kaffka, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis, who will develop viable biofuel feedstocks at test plots.

Kaffka will conduct research to develop viable biofuel feedstocks at test plots at UC Davis and in Salinas, the Imperial Valley and Five Points in the Central Valley, according to the article. Findings from Kaffka's research will be tested for commercial farming use at John Diener's 5,400-acre Red Rock Ranch in the Central Valley, which produces 40 conventional and organic crops.