Farm-scale costs and returns for second generation bioenergy cropping systems in the US Corn Belt

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Manatt, Robert K ^a   Hallam, Arne ^b   Schulte, Lisa A ^a   Heaton, Emily A ^a   Gunther, Theo ^a   Hall, Richard B ^a   Moore, Ken J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b E005A Lagomarcino Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

bioenergy; biofuel; farm profitability; financial analysis; Landscape Biomass Project

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMERCE; COSTS; CROPS; FOOD SUPPLY; INVESTMENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROFITABILITY;

BIO-ENERGY; BIOMASS PROJECTS; CORN-SOYBEAN ROTATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FINANCIAL ANALYSIS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SECOND GENERATION (2G);

BIOFUELS;

BIOENERGY; BIOMASS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; CROPPING PRACTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; INVESTMENT; MAIZE; PROFITABILITY;

IOWA; UNITED STATES;

GLYCINE MAX; PANICUM VIRGATUM; TRITICOSECALE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84885581330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035037     Document Type: Article

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