The Sustainable Feedstock Production Systems research team conducts comparative analyses of the productivity potential and the environmental impacts of the most promising bioenergy crops and management systems using a network of 14 fields strategically located across the Midwestern Region.
The team will produce a quantitative assessment of the net energy balance of candidate systems and optimize perennial feedstock production and ecosystem services on marginally productive cropland while maintaining food production on prime land.Sustainable Feedstock Production Systems Project Directors
- Jeffrey Volenec, Purdue University
- Robert Mitchell, USDA, Agricultural Research Service
- David Laird, Iowa State University
Sustainable Feedstock Production Systems Collaborators
- Sylvie Brouder, Purdue University
- Michael Casler, Purdue University
- Indrajeet Chaubey, Purdue University
- Emily Heaton, Iowa State University
- Virginia Jin, USDA, Agricultural Research Service
- John Lamb, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- DoKyoung Lee, University of Illinois
- Ricard Perrin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Carl Rosen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Ron Turco, Purdue University
- Brian Weinhold, USDA, Agricultural Research Service
| CenUSA Bioenergy is supported by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant No. 2011-68005-30411 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. |
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