Russ
Registered: Oct 24, 2008
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This was just posted by Jack Schultz:
Miscanthurs--What?  They don’t grow much corn in western ND. It doesn’t rain enough, irrigation water is not readily available and the soils are not prime. However, there are some new technologies and crops which could open up areas of the Great Plains for biofuel production and hopefully positively impacting rural towns in ND and other states.
An article in ScienceDaily last month cited one of these crops, “In the largest field trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have determined that the giant perennial grass Miscanthus x gignateus outperforms current biofuel sources—by a lot.”
Full Story: http://boomtownusa.blogspot.com/2008/10/miscanthurs-what.html
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