Cost to Produce Cellulosic Biomass Feedstock: Four Perennial Grass Species Compared

Mohua Haque, Francis M. Epplin, Sijesh Aravindhakshan and Charles Taliaferro

No 6817, 2008 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2008, Dallas, Texas from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: Switchgrass has been proposed as a dedicated energy crop to fulfill long-term policy goals. Production costs were determined for switchgrass and three alternative perennial grass species for four levels of nitrogen fertilizer and two harvest systems. For the alternatives evaluated, biomass production cost per ton was lowest for switchgrass.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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