Farm Energy

12/09/2018

Rose Marie Belforti recently completed a Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education grant focused on making fuel briquettes from excess livestock manure and bedding. More info at the link below: http://blog.uvm.edu/cwcallah/2018/12/09/briquetting-a-better-burnable-cow-patty/

09/08/2017

Learn about school district biomass heating in this NEWBio video!

The East Lycoming School District is applying many renewable energy initiatives to their campus. Some of these initiatives include a biomass boiler system an...

07/31/2017

"Fall harvest of Switchgrass in Crawford County PA using a disc mower."

Photo by Daniel Ciolkosz:
http://buff.ly/2rqRSeI

06/30/2017

Can you guess the age of this miscanthus crop?

06/28/2017

Catch up on NEWBio: Northeast Woody/Warm-season Biomass Consortium's webinar - "Handling Fire Risk in Biomass Operations" - by watching the recording here!

Title: Handling Fire Risk in Biomass Operations Speaker: Dr. Douglas Schaufler, Penn State University Description: Farmers interested in the production and p...

06/23/2017

Biomass Harvest and Logistics: Siting and Supply Chain Optimization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvyELT_ki1Y&feature=youtu.be

via NEWBio: Northeast Woody/Warm-season Biomass Consortium

06/14/2017

Learn more about Harvest and Logistics: Siting and Supply Chain Optimization in this great webinar from the NEWBio: Northeast Woody/Warm-season Biomass Consortium webinar series!

Speakers: Jingxin Wang, Professor of Wood Science and Technology, West Virginia University, and Damon Hartley, Research Scientist, Idaho National Lab.

Title: Biomass Harvest and Logistics: Siting and Supply Chain Optimization Speakers: Jingxin Wang, Professor of Wood Science and Technology, West Virginia Un...

06/02/2017

Wood chips move on a conveyor belt on a fuel feed system at West Branch School District, Morrisdale PA

For more images like this, visit the FarmEnergy Media Archive: http://buff.ly/2qBh9Gh

05/31/2017

Do you know your ABC’s of Life Cycle Analysis for Dairy Production?

Learn more in this great webinar, brought to you by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their eXtension program!

Life Cycle Assessment is a method to account for all inputs and outputs for a "system" and is often used to account for energy inputs or greenhouse gas emiss...

05/22/2017

"This project marks a significant step forward in demonstrating the commercial viability of short-rotation woody biomass crops." via U.S. Department of Energy

h/t NEWBio: Northeast Woody/Warm-season Biomass Consortium

Biomass Powering a Military Base in Upstate New York

05/10/2017

"Controlled pollination of willow: Applying pollen to a female willow catkin in a controlled pollination to breed for improved bioenergy willow."

Photograph by: Larry Smart , Cornell University
See more: http://farmenergymedia.extension.org/images

04/19/2017

Can you name this crop?

Image Credit: Daniel Ciolkosz, Penn State Extension http://buff.ly/2o6TcRn