Cotton Newsline: August 8, 2007

With limited acres for producing corn for ethanol, researchers have spent years looking at other resources.

With limited acres for producing corn for ethanol, researchers have spent years looking at other resources.  Dr. Elizabeth Hood, Vice Chancellor for Research & Technology Transfer at Arkansas State University, has been working to enable the cellulose to ethanol industry.

Hood says it takes one ton of dry matter to produce 85 gallons of ethanol.

Hood explains the value proposition to the producer.

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