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A Review On Potential Biofuel Yields From Cover Crops, Liangcheng Yang, Lucas D. Lamont, Shan Liu, Chunchun Guo, Shelby Stoner

Faculty Publications - Agriculture

Millions of hectares of cover crops are planted in the U.S. and European Union to manage soil erosion, soil fertility, water quality, weeds, and climate change. Although only a small percentage of cover crops are harvested, the growing cover crop planting area provides a new biomass source to the biofuel industry to produce bioenergy. Oilseed crops such as rapeseed, sunflower, and soybean are commodities and have been used to produce biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Other cover crops such as cereal rye, clover, and alfalfa, have been tested on small or pilot scales to produce cellulosic ethanol, biogas, syngas, …

Measuring Mental Health Service Preferences Amongst Illinois Dairy Producers, Michael Barrowclough, Brianna Messman, Daniel Lannin, Maria Boerngen, Michelle Kibler

Faculty Publications - Agriculture

Objectives

To mitigate mental health concerns of farmers, research is needed to investigate strategies that encourage help-seeking behavior in this population. This study attempts to identify those help-seeking strategies. Six mental health service options were examined.

Methods

A survey, implementing a best-worst scaling choice experiment, was disseminated to members of the Illinois Milk Producers Association. Two methods of analysis were conducted. The first, a count-based method, employs a simple count-based approach to measure the relative preferences for the six mental health service options in question. The second is more complex and employs a latent-class logit regression model to measure individual …