date:Oct 11, 2012
to work with bioenergy crops as alternatives for those marginal and vulnerable soils.
Kitchen has been working with switchgrass for about five years and found that even when there is a lack of topsoil it is possible to grow a healthy switchgrass crop that will produce 5 to 7 tons per acre per year. Miscanthus can produce from 7 to 15 tons per acre.
Kitchen noted that despite this years drought, switchgrass is producing 4 to 6 tons per acre. Compare that to corn grown on adjacent land that onl