{"id":3832,"date":"2014-05-22T14:17:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T14:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2014-05-22T14:37:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T14:37:48","slug":"renewable-energy-grass-research-in-nny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/22\/renewable-energy-grass-research-in-nny\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable Energy Grass Research in NNY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cornell University Crop and Soil Sciences Professor Jerry Cherney is investigating the potential for Northern NY-grown grass energy crops to support a closed-loop, regional renewable energy system in which a grass-based heating product can be grown, processed into briquettes or pellets, and marketed locally.<\/p>\n<p>Cherney is evaluating grasses that can be grown on land that is not otherwise productive.<\/p>\n<p>He has evaluated mulch-type hay samples produced by more than 40 farmers in Northern New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to identify whether mulch-type hay is appropriate for all scales of biomass combustion or if it would be better used for light industrial and industrial heating applications,\u201d Cherney says.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Cherney will present his most recent research findings at the North Country Clean Energy Conference in Lake Placid June 4-6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The bioenergy feedstock trials, funded by the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program, are focused on three species with high yield potential under NNY growing conditions . . .<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CherneyGrassEn2013ResultsPR.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read more<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/bio-energy\/production\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click here for NNYADP Grass Biomass Potential for NNY Research Reports<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornell University Crop and Soil Sciences Professor Jerry Cherney is investigating the potential for Northern NY-grown grass energy crops to support a closed-loop, regional renewable energy system in which a grass-based heating product can be grown, processed into briquettes or pellets, and marketed locally. Cherney is evaluating grasses that can be grown on land that [&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-3832","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\/3832","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=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}