Measuring environmental changes from cotton to biomass

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Rich Keller, Editor, Ag Professional
June 4, 2012

A three-year study by a team of Texas AgriLife Research scientists has begun to determine how a switch of land use from traditional cotton production in the southwest Cotton Belt to switchgrass or biomass sorghum “would affect the carbon balance, hydrologic cycle and greenhouse gas emissions.”

Texas AgriLife announced the project as part of the national effort “to ensure the U.S. can reach the goal outlined in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The act requires the U.S. to produce 36 billion gallons per year of biofuels by 2022.”

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