Over the past 38 years, we've produced a handful of No-Till Farmer articles on no-tilling corn and other crops into a living cover, such as alfalfa sod, cereal rye or wheat. But it’s a tricky maneuver and one that has not caught on among many no-tillers.
Iowa State University researchers are testing between-row cover grasses as part of research looking at ways to reduce soil runoff and keep vital nutrients in the soils while crop residue, called stover, is removed from farm fields to produce biofuels.
An area farmer told University of Nebraska Extension educator Jim Schneider that he recently received an offer to buy his corn residue for as much as $20 a ton or $60 an acre for a 3-ton harvest.
How much corn crop residue, or stover, can be removed for biofuels without harming soil? An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) study of a 10-mile circle around the University of Minnesota's Morris campus offers some clues.
Today’s ethanol industry continues to look to agricultural as a fuel source. While grain has seen the lion’s share of interest, corn residue holds promise as another potential fuel source.
The value of the corn residue on your fields might be more than agronomic: A market for corn stover to feed ethanol production is expected to develop in the foreseeable future.
With scientists progressing in their efforts to turn crop residues such as corn stover into ethanol, demonstration processing plants could begin using such materials within the next year, according to experts speaking during a recent conference at South Dakota State University.
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