Sentences with phrase «farmed switchgrass»

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Farmers planted switchgrass on 10 farms, each of which was between 3 and 9 hectares.

Planting perennial crops such as switchgrass near creeks increased greenhouse gas mitigation, water quality, beneficial insects and energy production, though it decreased total net income of farms in the study area by roughly $ 30 million.

Regular gasoline is a really high cost of farming for them, and they have a lot of switchgrass.»

Vogel and his colleagues conducted the first large - scale field study of switchgrass by monitoring its growth on the borders of 10 farms in Dakota; they noted the amount of seed, fertilizer and fuel used, the amount of precipitation and the amount of grass harvested over the span of 5 years.

-- the assessment of the size and unavoidable consequences of the fire risk — for corn, for switchgrass, or any other large scale farmed fuel.