URBANA, Ill. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency established the Conservation Reserve Program 30 years ago to improve water quality, reduce soil erosion, and increase habitat ...

Grasslands enrolled in conservation programs provide important habitat for nesting game birds and waterfowl, but conservation grasslands have been targeted as a source of biomass for bioenergy and ...

Biomass is organic matter derived from living, or recently living organisms. Biomass can be used as a source of energy and it most often refers to plants or plant-based materials which are not used ...

BENSON -- Chippewa Valley Ethanol is leading the way in proving the technology and economics of biomass energy. This year's lesson was all economics. The company did not harvest corn cobs from farm ...

EMMETSBURG, Iowa — Farmers within a 45-mile radius of the POET-DSM Project LIBERTY cellulosic ethanol plant at Emmetsburg are in the midst of biomass harvest. Eric Bruhn, of Cylinder, Iowa, bales corn ...

Iowa State University researchers are looking at ways to use ground cover, a living grass planted between the rows of corn, in production farming. Ground cover may be one workable method to reduce the ...

MIDDLEBURY, Vt.MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Middlebury College used to heat its buildings with oil, then switched to wood chips. Now it has planted a sustainable and relatively cheap fuel source – willow shrubs ...

Biomass harvesting refers to harvesting where more woody material is gathered than in a traditional sawtimber harvesting. Material down to four inches in diameter is harvested along with large trees ...

Making the shift to renewable energy sources requires biomass, too. This is a story of carbon choices: As societies around the world continue to move toward increased renewable energy portfolios, ...

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:53:20 GMT — Middlebury College used to heat its buildings with oil, then switched to wood chips. Now it has planted a sustainable and relatively cheap fuel source - willow shrubs ...