By Don Comis
Special to Poultry Today
BELTSVILLE, Md. — USDA researchers have developed an inexpensive way to grade the ethanol potential of perennial grasses at the biorefinery's loading dock.
That future has been made possible by a team of Agricultural Research Service scientists, including Ken Vogel, Rob Mitchell and Steve Masterson at Lincoln, Neb.; Hans Jung at St. Paul, Minn.; Bruce Dien at Peoria, Ill.; and Michael Casler at Madison, Wis.
The researchers developed the first use of near-infrared sensing (NIRS) to measure 20 components in switchgrass biomass that determine its potential value to biorefiners. These components include. . .
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