See more from this Division: A08 Integrated Agricultural Systems
See more from this Session: Managing Spatial Variability/Div. A08 Business Meeting
Abstract:
If 360 degree synergies are developed and implemented on a site specific basis we have the potential to offer a new production paradigm that delivers increased productivity and efficient use of finite production resources. Using the ('07) rotation example presented; with winter wheat and seedling clover utilizing the solar corridor floor, one could easily extrapolate, the possibility* of producing enough corn starch in the United States, to produce an extra 30 billion gal. of fuel ethanol, without increasing the number of United States corn acres and without taking corn from current uses. The example used assumes 75-85 million acres of corn and 75-85 million acres of winter wheat/seedling clover on 150-170 million crop acres. A most basic challenge that I see,-how to harvest the solar corridor floor wheat crop- will be a major focus of this paper.
*pending sufficient hybrid development
See more from this Division: A08 Integrated Agricultural Systems
See more from this Session: Managing Spatial Variability/Div. A08 Business Meeting