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 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l