Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

FARMERS NOW ALLOWED TO DELIVER BIOMASS TO POET'S CELLULOSIC ETHANOL PLANT

AgriMarketing
Jan. 28, 2011
Source: POET news release

Farmers are now delivering biomass bales to POET's 22-acre storage site in Emmetsburg, Iowa, the future home of the 25 million-gallon-per-year cellulosic ethanol plant dubbed "Project LIBERTY."

Area farmers harvested 56,000 tons of corn cobs, leaves, husks and some stalk this fall but had been waiting to deliver the biomass to POET while guidelines for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) were finalized. Farmers on Monday began completing the application process, and they started delivering bales soon after.

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