On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Jim Sharkey wrote:
>
> Lance A. Brown wrote:
>> Being able to grow switchgrass on marginal land not suitable for
>> other, more traditional, crops is one of its benefits.
>
> To me that certainly seems like one of its biggest benefits. It's
> grass; it doesn't require nearly the same kind of care that more
> traditional food crops do. And I recall the article indicated that
> unlike those crops, it doesn't need replanting every year. If they
> can work around the cellulouse issues, I think it's very promising.
>
> Jim
Would it also work on land slated for development
soon-but-not-immediately?
There's land I pass taking the kids to school every morning that is just
growing grass, which they mow and bale on a regular basis, but that is in
a location attractive enough for future development that they may not want
it tied up with a food crop for a year. (Or cotton. There are still a
few cotton fields around here, but another one is lost to housing each
year, it seems.)
Julia
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