Bioenergy Crop Production in the United States: Potential Quantities, Land Use Changes, and Economic Impacts on the Agricultural Sector

By M. Walsh, D. G. de la Torre Ugarte, H. Shapouri, Stephen P. Slinsky. 2003

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Forestry, Mechanics of Materials

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Biofuel Supply Chain Design Under Competitive Agricultural Land Use and Feedstock Market Equilibrium (2012, methodology): “…models were frequently utilized to predict the growth of the ethanol industry with the gasoline/additives demand (Gallagher et al., 2003), and bioenergy crop production and land use patterns under various agricultural policies and bioenergy prices scenarios (Dicks et al., 2009; Walsh et al., 2003).”
Renewable Fuel Standard: Potential Economic and Environmental Effects of U.S. Biofuel Policy (2012, methodology): “Costs and supply estimates are derived from the Policy Analysis System (POLYSYS) modeling framework (Walsh et al., 2003).”
Establishment Stand Thresholds for Switchgrass Grown as a Bioenergy Crop (2006, background): “The fields selected had characteristics that would have qualified them for the CRP and were typical of their surrounding geographical region.”
Switching to Perennial Energy Crops Under Uncertainty and Costly Reversibility (2011, methodology): “In the NPV approach (Walsh et al. 2003; Fumasi 2008), a farmer will convert land to energy crops if the expected NPV of the returns from energy crops exceed those from current (traditional) crops.”
Evaluation of ammonia fibre expansion (AFEX) pretreatment for enzymatic hydrolysis of switchgrass harvested in different seasons and locations (2010, background): “The Oak Ridge National Laboratory predicts that 171 million tons of switchgrass can be produced economically within the US [4].”
Sixty Billion Gallons by 2030: Economic and Agricultural Impacts of Ethanol and Biodiesel Expansion (2007, methodology): “Estimated response curves are obtained through the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Walsh et al, 2003).”
Economics and Energy of Ethanol Production from Alfalfa, Corn, and Switchgrass in the Upper Midwest, USA (2008, background): “Instead, switchgrass may be better suited to marginal or erosion-prone agricultural lands already set aside from traditional crop rotations, such as in the Conservation Reserve Program [48, 52] or in riparian buffer strips [46].”
Costs of producing miscanthus and switchgrass for bioenergy in Illinois (2008, unknown): “Studies of the costs of growing switchgrass in specific regions in the US [17] [18] [19] find that these costs are lower than those of other herbaceous crops [20] and of willow and poplar [21] [22] [23] and of short rotation woody crops [24].”
Land Allocation Effects of the Global Ethanol Surge: Predictions from the International FAPRI Model (2009, methodology): “The various analyses by English, De la Torre, and associates (De La Torre Ugarte et al. 2003; English et al. 2006a, 2006b; Walsh et al. 2003) have been outstanding and have supported the competitiveness of cellulosic feedstock in ethanol production.”
Life-cycle assessment of net greenhouse-gas flux for bioenergy cropping systems. (2007, background): “…from agricultural statistics in Centre County, Pennsylvania, for corn, soybeans, and alfalfa (USDANational Agricultural Statistics Service 2004); and for switchgrass (Adler et al. 2006), reed canarygrass (Cherney et al. 2003), and hybrid poplar (Walsh et al. 2003) were based on regional estimates.”
The Biology and Agronomy of Switchgrass for Biofuels (2005, background): “Economic studies modeled large-scale bioenergy cropping and provided estimates of acreages available and farm-gate prices needed to make switchgrass-based systems economically viable (Downing and Graham, 1996; Turhollow, 1994; Walsh et al., 2003).”
Biodiversity conservation in the era of biofuels: risks and opportunities (2011, background): “We focus on four major biofuel crops, either currently in cultivation or being considered for production in the US (Walsh et al. 2003): corn (Zea mays), switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), and Pinus and Populus species.”