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First production sized switchgrass crop for fuel to be planted in OK
Oklahoma Set to Plant First-Ever 1,000 Acre Switchgrass FieldARDMORE, Okla., April 24....secured land for the world's largest stand of switchgrass devoted to cellulosic ethanol production....Oklahoma advances switchgrass,.. The Oklahoma Bioenergy Center (OBC)... planting of more than 1,100 acres of production-scale demonstration fields for cellulosic energy crops...Planting will take place within the next 45 days. -- Planting will be in the OK panhandle. The panhandle gets about 20" of precip a year. Its not enough for corn and only some inferior wheat varieties could grow there (and since precip is variable, a lot of years are too dry to grow even that). The biorefinery will be only 40 miles away from the fields. Probably it will take a few years to get this working decently but its a step in the right direction. Posted by: mhw 2008-05-02 |
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