$987,000 targets conservation practices for biomass crops
AgBio CommunicationsA $487,000 Conservation Innovation Grant from the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service will be supplemented by a $500,000 contribution from SDSU for a project to study precision conservation practices in growing biomass crops for energy. The funds will help SDSU researchers evaluate conservation practices while growing a variety of cellulosic feedstocks - crop materials such as cornstalks or switchgrass - that could be processed to make cellulosic ethanol.