Biomass as Sustainable Energy: The Potential and Economic Impacts on U.S. Agriculture

Randall Reese, Satheesh Aradhyula (), Jason Shogren and Shaine Tyson

Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications from Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University

Abstract: This paper addresses the economic feasibility and impacts on U.S. agriculture of establishing a biomass crops industry capable of producing 8 quads methanol or 9.4 quads ethanol by the year 2030 from grasses grown as biomass feedstocks. The results suggest that such an industry could become commercially viable and that the agricultural economy would benefit. Producers of traditional and biomass crops would benefit most. While consumers and livestock producers would be worse off as a result of higher crop prices, society would gain from reduced government payments to crop producers and from lower levels of air pollution.

Date: 1992-04
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.card.iastate.edu/products/publications/pdf/92wp92.pdf Full Text (application/pdf)
https://www.card.iastate.edu/products/publications/synopsis/?p=620 Online Synopsis (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ias:cpaper:92-wp92

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications from Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().