date:Oct 11, 2012
Bioenergy crops can be a good match for areas of fields that have lost productivity. Crops such as switchgrass and miscanthus can help soil, improve water quality and provide alternative revenue, says Newell Kitchen, a soil scientist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service and adjunct professor at the University of Missouri.
It really goes back to yield mapping, Kitchen said. Farmers began installing yield monitors on combines in the 1990s and with that was a much greater awareness and appr