Soil and Water Research Unit
4115 Gourrier Avenue 
Baton Rouge, LA 70808-4443    
Phone: (225) 757-7726 
Fax: (225) 757-7728 

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Objective:

Specific objectives are to develop technology and management guidelines to maximize production of varieties of sugar cane that are most suitable for energy/fuel production while: 1. Minimizing water use and negative impacts to the quality of drainage waters, including exploring wastewater reuse technologies to support biomass energy production. 2. Maintaining soil fertility and maximizing soil carbon storage and carbon neutrality of biomass energy production systems in humid temperate and subtropical environments. 3. Minimizing sediment and nutrient loss and potential erosion and/or subsidence of associated coastal ecosystems.

 

 

ARS & LSU Ag Center cooperative experimental site at the LSU Sugar Station, St. Gabriel, LA, for developing and evaluating Energy-Cane production practices for bio-energy fuels that will maximize utilization

of applied agrochemicals (fertilizers and pesticides) and minimize chemical and soil (erosion) losses in drainage runoff.

 

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