Production costs of potential corn stover harvest and storage systems

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 133-139

  Vadas, Peter A ^a   Digman, Matthew F ^a  

^a U S DAIRY FORAGE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn stover; Harvest; Modeling; Production costs; Storage

Indexed keywords

BALE STORAGE; CORN STOVER; DRY MATTER LOSS; HARVEST; INDOOR STORAGE; PRODUCTION COST; SECOND GROUP; STORAGE SYSTEMS;

COSTS; ENERGY STORAGE; MODELS; PILES;

HARVESTING;

BIOENERGY; BIOFUEL; BIOMASS POWER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRY MATTER; HARVESTING; MAIZE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRODUCTION COST; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SILAGE; STORAGE; TRADE-OFF;

NORTH AMERICA;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84876725496     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2013.03.028     Document Type: Article

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