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Feedstock Crop Production Costs And Biofuel Feedstock Input Costs Associated With The Production Of Energy Cane And Sweet Sorghum In The Southeastern Usa, Michael E. Salassi, Alessandro Holzapfel, Brian M. Hilbun, Michael A. Deliberto, Kenneth A. Gravois, Howard P. Viator, Lawrence L. Falconer, Tyler B. Mark
Feedstock Crop Production Costs And Biofuel Feedstock Input Costs Associated With The Production Of Energy Cane And Sweet Sorghum In The Southeastern Usa, Michael E. Salassi, Alessandro Holzapfel, Brian M. Hilbun, Michael A. Deliberto, Kenneth A. Gravois, Howard P. Viator, Lawrence L. Falconer, Tyler B. Mark
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© 2017, The Author(s). Concentration of biofuel feedstock crop production in specific regions of the USA is dependent on the relative comparative advantage of production in a specific region based on several agronomic and economic factors. For the southeastern region of the USA, energy cane and sweet sorghum have been identified as two feedstock crops with the greatest potential for further development of production. This study utilized field trial data from yield studies in Louisiana to develop estimates of feedstock crop production costs and biofuel feedstock input costs for these two crops. Results indicated that feedstock production costs on a …
Trajectory Economics: Assessing The Flow Of Ecosystem Services From Coastal Restoration, Rex H. Caffey, Hua Wang, Daniel R. Petrolia
Trajectory Economics: Assessing The Flow Of Ecosystem Services From Coastal Restoration, Rex H. Caffey, Hua Wang, Daniel R. Petrolia
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Monetized estimates of ecosystem services are increasingly cited as partial justification for a wide range of environmental restoration initiatives, yet parallel applications of these values in performance assessment have been limited. Incorporated into traditional economic models, such values can offer potential insight on programmatic efficiency and help to inform policy tradeoffs within and between competing methods. For this analysis, acreage trajectories and cost functions are developed for dredge- and diversion-based land reclamation methods in coastal Louisiana, USA. Benefit-cost models are constructed from which ecosystem service values are initially derived via break-even analysis and then specified to inform comparative case studies. …
Farm-Scale Cost Of Producing Perennial Energy Cane As A Biofuel Feedstock, Michael E. Salassi, Kayla Brown, Brian M. Hilbun, Michael A. Deliberto, Kenneth A. Gravois, Tyler B. Mark, Lawrence L. Falconer
Farm-Scale Cost Of Producing Perennial Energy Cane As A Biofuel Feedstock, Michael E. Salassi, Kayla Brown, Brian M. Hilbun, Michael A. Deliberto, Kenneth A. Gravois, Tyler B. Mark, Lawrence L. Falconer
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Energy cane varieties are high-fiber sugarcane clones which represent a promising feedstock in the production of alternative biofuels and biobased products. This study explored the crop establishment and whole farm production costs of growing energy cane as a biofuel feedstock in the southeastern USA. More specifically, total production costs on a feedstock dry matter biomass basis were estimated for five perennial energy cane varieties over alternative crop cycle lengths. Variable production costs for energy cane production were estimated to be in the $63 to $76 Mg-1 range of biomass dry matter for crop cycles through harvest of fourth through sixth …