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Biofuel and Carbon Sequestration
Updated
07/11/2008
Biofuel is any fuel derived from a
recently living organism, such as a plant. Biomass produced from
plants is processed into liquid fuel (ethanol and biodiesel),
burned to generate electricity, or chemically converted to syn-gas.
The Plant Materials Program of the USDA Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS) has been collecting, evaluating,
selecting, and releasing cultivars of switchgrass since the
1940’s for soil conservation, livestock forage and wildlife. These cultivars such as ‘Alamo’, ‘Kanlow’ and ‘Cave-in-Rock’,
which are products of the plant materials program, are being
utilized as biofuel crops in the Northern Great Plains and
southeastern United States. Several Plant Materials Centers have cooperated with
the U.S. Department of Energy’s Biomass Feed Stock Development
Program by conducting regional testing trials and management
practices for biomass production and evaluation.
Publications
These documents require
Acrobat Reader.
Plant
Materials Used for Biofuel PDF; 2,758 KB June 2007 - National Plant Materials
Program Fact Sheet
Switchgrass
Biomass Trials in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota. PDF; 852KB Tober,
D., W. Duckwitz, N. Jensen, and M. Knudson. 2007. USDA, NRCS, Bismarck, ND.
March 2007. 20p. (ID# 7093)
'Alamo'
Switchgrass - Could It Be A Friendly Fuel for Cars.
PDF; 111 KB Rudy G. Esquivel. 2006. James E. 'Bud' Smith
Plant Materials Center, Knox City , Texas. March 2006.
1p. (ID# 6525)
President's
State of the Union Address has Grassroots in Texas.
PDF; 18 KB . 2006. Knox City PMC, February 2006. 1p. (ID#
6520)
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