POET, farmers prepare for first commercial biomass harvest

TruthAboutTrade.com
Monday, 13 September 2010 22:33
Brownfield Ag Network
By Ken Anderson
September 4, 2010
www.brownfieldagnews.com

The first commercial harvest of biomass for Project Liberty, POET’s cellulosic ethanol initiative, will take place this fall in northwest Iowa.

The biomass will consist of corn cobs and light stover being collected by 85 farmers in the area around Emmetsburg, Iowa. POET will use the biomass to produce cellulosic ethanol at its Emmetsburg plant, starting in early 2012.

Project Liberty director Jim Sturdevant says after experimenting with several different cob-collection methods, the farmers have settled on corn cob bales rather than loose cobs as the primary feedstock.

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