As the statements about soil quality, the ISU data is consistent so far with other research done on the topic in Iowa and other parts of the country. We work to find all relevant research on the matter, and it would be helpful if you cite the research to which you're referring.
Thanks for the comments. The stover is actually being harvested for our cellulosic ethanol project. We don't expect farmers to be able to go from not harvesting any stover to harvesting 270,000 in one year, so we are getting the harvest system in place prior to commercialization.
Since the cellulosic plant isn't scheduled to start up until 2013, we are using the stover from these initial harvests for research and other uses, such as the solid fuel boiler in Chancellor.
How does it make sense to buy 56,000 tons of corn stover when you can only use 1 ton per day? Then you load bales on trucks, haul it to the Sioux Falls landfill, unload them to be fed into a grinder, reloaded on trucks, and hauled to a plant where the residue is made into giant piles. Who is the genius that thought this up? I smell Obama money in this. You should be ashamed of yourselves and the college professors who started this farce.
Farmers commonly report that the long-term use of synthetic fertilizers, especially anhydrous ammonia, leads to soil compaction and poor tilth. The potential harmful effects from KCl can be surmised from in the salt concentration of the material. Sodium nitrate is another high salt fertilizer. Because of the relatively low nitrogen content of sodium nitrate, a high amount of sodium is added to the soil when normal applications of nitrogen are made with this material.
Iowa State University and the University of Wisconsin are using JUNK SCIENCE in determining that it's wonderful to take 25% of remaining corn stover off the land. Anything taken out of the soil must be replaced to balance the structure. Structure can be destroyed readily through our choice to remove stover. It must be replaced with appropriate amounts of fertilizer, increasing the salt content of soil over the long term.
As the statements about soil quality, the ISU data is consistent so far with other research done on the topic in Iowa and other parts of the country. We work to find all relevant research on the matter, and it would be helpful if you cite the research to which you're referring.
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Thanks for the comments. The stover is actually being harvested for our cellulosic ethanol project. We don't expect farmers to be able to go from not harvesting any stover to harvesting 270,000 in one year, so we are getting the harvest system in place prior to commercialization.
Since the cellulosic plant isn't scheduled to start up until 2013, we are using the stover from these initial harvests for research and other uses, such as the solid fuel boiler in Chancellor.
poettv 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
How does it make sense to buy 56,000 tons of corn stover when you can only use 1 ton per day? Then you load bales on trucks, haul it to the Sioux Falls landfill, unload them to be fed into a grinder, reloaded on trucks, and hauled to a plant where the residue is made into giant piles. Who is the genius that thought this up? I smell Obama money in this. You should be ashamed of yourselves and the college professors who started this farce.
DeepThought42a 1 month ago
The concern is that excessive sodium acts as a dispersant of soil particles, degrading aggregation.
DeepThought42a 1 month ago
Farmers commonly report that the long-term use of synthetic fertilizers, especially anhydrous ammonia, leads to soil compaction and poor tilth. The potential harmful effects from KCl can be surmised from in the salt concentration of the material. Sodium nitrate is another high salt fertilizer. Because of the relatively low nitrogen content of sodium nitrate, a high amount of sodium is added to the soil when normal applications of nitrogen are made with this material.
DeepThought42a 1 month ago
Iowa State University and the University of Wisconsin are using JUNK SCIENCE in determining that it's wonderful to take 25% of remaining corn stover off the land. Anything taken out of the soil must be replaced to balance the structure. Structure can be destroyed readily through our choice to remove stover. It must be replaced with appropriate amounts of fertilizer, increasing the salt content of soil over the long term.
DeepThought42a 1 month ago