ALMANAC Model May Help Predict Crops' Role in Bioenergy Production

USDA
By Don Comis
December 10, 2008

A computer model called ALMANAC promises to provide answers about a key issue facing agriculture today: the management of crops such as corn and switchgrass for bioenergy production.

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) agronomist Jim R. Kiniry at the Grassland Soil and Water Research Laboratory in Temple, Tex., and his colleagues originally developed ALMANAC as a crop-management tool, then updated it as a pasture management tool. Now it's being used to evaluate biofuel crops.

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