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Companies and university researchers are taking us closer toward providing a domestic supply of biofuel from cellulosic crops. Some experts are testing crops for their potential to produce biofuel and be feed as forages.
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  • Nov. 20, 2012
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    Missouri Scientist Touts Bioenergy Crop Benefits

    Bioenergy crops like switchgrass and miscanthus can improve soil and water quality, provide alternative revenue and grow in areas of fields that have lost productivity. So says Newell Kitchen, a soil scientist with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service and the University of Missouri....More
  • Sep. 30, 2012
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    Direct Biofuel Production Is Purdue Research Goal

    Purdue University researchers have received a $5.2-million U.S. Department of Energy grant to develop a plant that can make a ready-to-burn biofuel....More
  • Aug. 28, 2012
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    USDA Backs Loan For North Carolina Biofuel Plant

    USDA last week announced a $99-million loan guarantee to Chemtex International, Inc., to build a 20-million-gallon-per-year cellulosic ethanol refinery in eastern North Carolina’s Sampson County....More
  • Aug. 10, 2012
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    High-Volume Fleet Cuts Biomass Costs

    Feedstox’s purchase of two combine-balers completed a fleet of state-of-the-art equipment that the non-profit company assembled for harvesting biomass from corn, wheat, switchgrass, miscanthus and other crops....More
  • Aug. 10, 2012
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    Combine-Baler: Same-Pass Biomass Baling 1

    Besides cutting out two field trips, a new combine-baler combination keeps wheat straw off the ground, preventing ash contamination....More
  • Aug. 4, 2012
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    Tennessee Biomass Field Day Set For Oct. 24-25

    On-farm demonstrations of energy crop production, as well as an open house at Genera Energy’s Biomass Innovation Industrial Park in Vonore, TN, will be held Oct. 24-25. The "From Grow to Go" Biomass Field Day will be hosted by the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture and industrial collaborators....More
  • Jul. 2, 2012
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    Prairie Cordgrass Has Potential As Energy Crop

    Previously underrated as a potential biofuel crop, prairie cordgrass has gained the interest of University of Illinois (U of I) crop scientists....More
  • Jun. 16, 2012
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    Millions Awarded For California Green Fuel Projects

    More than $23 million has been awarded by the California Energy Commission to advance alternative-fuel development....More
  • Apr. 24, 2012
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    Alfalfa, Biofuels Focus Of California Field Day

    University of California (UC) Extension will hold an Alfalfa and Biofuels Field Day on May 9 at its Agronomy Field Headquarters in Davis. The event will run from 12:45 to 3 p.m....More
  • Apr. 9, 2012
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    Optimistic About Cellulosic Ethanol 1

    Custom forage harvesters will soon gain a number of new clients if Sam Jackson’s expectations for cellulosic ethanol production are on target. He’s vice president for feedstock development and supply at Genera Energy, Vonore, TN, where a 250,000-gallon cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant has been operating for two years...More
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