Field Tours Will Show Biomass Crops Aug. 25 and Aug. 29
Rod Swoboda
rswoboda@farmprogress.com
August 18, 2008
Iowa State University officials will give the public a view of the university's latest research for growing and harvesting biomass crops when it holds field tours west of Ames on August 25 and 29. The tours will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. Aug 25 and 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 29 at the ISU Ag Engineering and Agronomy Research Farm, three miles west of Ames on highway 30.
The tours will include a presentation explaining ISU's plans for the New Century Farm, which is being built at the ISU Ag Engineering and Agronomy Research Farm. The New Century Farm is the first integrated, sustainable biofuel feedstock production farm and processing facility in the nation.
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