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Co-firing in Coal Power Plants and its Impact on Biomass Feedstock Availability
Dumortier, Jerome - School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana … - 2015
stover, wheat straw, switchgrass, and forest residues as well as endogenous crop prices. Our scenarios indicate that there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201048
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Land Use Implications of Expanding Biofuel Demand
Dicks, Michael R.; Campiche, Jody L.; Torre Ugarte, … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 41 (2009) 02
, 23.5 million tons of wheat straw, and 24.7 million acres would be used to produce 109 million tons of switchgrass in 2025 … corn stover, and 56,200 tons of switchgrass is needed to meet the mandate. …
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Impact of Off-Farm Employment on Farmers’ Willingness to Grow Switchgrass and Miscanthus
Gedikoglu, Haluk - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2012
Current study analyzed the socio-economic factors that impact farmers’ willingness to grow switchgrass and Miscanthus …
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Environment and livelihoods in tropical coastal zones: managing agriculture, fishery, aquaculture conflicts.
Tuong, To Phuc; Gowing, John W.; Hardy, Bill - International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010910236
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What Drives the Adoption of Clean Agricultural Technologies? An Ex Ante Assessment of Sustainable Biofuel Production in Southwestern Wisconsin
Mooney, Daniel F.; Barham, Bradford L. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
This paper explores the farmer’s general decision to adopt a clean agricultural production technology and the particular role of pro-social behavior. We hypothesize that pro-social behavior may influence farmers’ individual valuation of clean technologies through two channels, their beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010881004
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Social Cost of Biomass Energy from Switchgrass in Western Massachusetts
Timmons, David - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 42 (2013) 1
affect total biomass energy cost. This study estimates switchgrass production cost in western Massachusetts at three levels … with benefit transfer suggest that social cost is much greater than private switchgrass production cost. The benefit …
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Market Interactions, Farmer Choices, and the Sustainability of Growing Advanced Biofuels
Jiang, Yong; Swinton, Scott M. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008
convert current grain cropland to grow a dedicated cellulosic biomass crop such as switchgrass. However, the financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005802831
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Potential Biomass Yields in the South Central US
Basnet, Arjun; Depona, Theo; Hedges, Wesley; Dicks, … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2011
This paper describes research to create a national database of switchgrass supply as part of the biomass program … launched by the Department of Energy. The paper provides an estimate of county level switchgrass yield data for the state of … approach of ratio calculation and estimation is used to predict the switchgrass yield of one soil type by comparing it with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008922596
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Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Implications of Biofuels: Role of Technology and Policy
Chen, Xiaoguang; Huang, Haixiao; Khanna, Madhu - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
This paper examines the extensive and intensive margin changes in land use in the U.S. likely to be induced by biofuel policies and the implications of these policies for GHG emissions over the 2007-2022 period. The policies considered here include the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) by itself as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002494
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The Ethanol Decade: An Expansion of U.S. Corn Production, 2000-09
Wallander, Steven; Claassen, Roger; Nickerson, Cynthia J. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2011
The recent 9-billion-gallon increase in corn-based ethanol production, which resulted from a combination of rising gasoline prices and a suite of Federal bioenergy policies, provides evidence of how farmers altered their land-use decisions in response to increased demand for corn. As some...
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