{"id":3287,"date":"2013-10-08T18:25:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T18:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2013-10-08T18:25:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T18:25:25","slug":"grass-willow-bioenergy-research-underway-in-nny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/08\/grass-willow-bioenergy-research-underway-in-nny\/","title":{"rendered":"Grass, Willow Bioenergy Research Underway in NNY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northern New York &#8212; As the nation prepares to celebrate the first National Bioenergy Day on October 17, researchers funded by the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program are continuing their study of willow and grass crops as alternative energy sources for agricultural producers in New York\u2019s six northernmost counties.<\/p>\n<p>Cornell University Crop and Soil Sciences Professor Dr. Jerry Cherney is evaluating the potential for a closed-loop, regional renewable energy system that makes marginal farmland productive, creates local jobs, lowers greenhouse gas emissions, and helps reduce dependency on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate project, Cornell Associate Professor of Horticulture Larry Smart is establishing a shrub willow trial at the Cornell Willsboro Research Farm in Willsboro, NY, to evaluate varieties and to test new methods for more sustainable site conversion and crop establishment in typical NNY fields.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NNYBioenergyProjectsPR.pdf\">Read more about both NNYADP-funded projects.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3289\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3289\" style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NNYYoungWillowWillsboro7232065.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3289 \" alt=\"Young willow growing in the variety trial established with Northern New York Agricultural Development Program funding at the Cornell Willsboro Research Farm in Willsboro, NY; photo: Lauren Frazier.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NNYYoungWillowWillsboro7232065-144x150.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young willow growing in the variety trial established with NNYADP funding at the Cornell Willsboro Research Farm; photo: Lauren Frazier.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern New York &#8212; As the nation prepares to celebrate the first National Bioenergy Day on October 17, researchers funded by the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program are continuing their study of willow and grass crops as alternative energy sources for agricultural producers in New York\u2019s six northernmost counties. Cornell University Crop and Soil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-press-releases","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}