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Abstract
This study examines the economic
potential of harvesting cellulosic biomass
from corn and three types of sorghum
rotated with soybeans using enterprise
budgets constructed with experiment field
data. The results show that harvesting of
crop residue from grain sorghum, corn,
and biomass from an energy sorghum that
does not produce grain is economically
feasible. Net returns from corn that
produced grain and corn stover has the
highest net return per acre. Dual purpose
sorghum which produces sorghum grain
and sorghum stover has the second
highest net return per acre. Net returns
from the other two sorghums were
substantially less.