Switchgrass is one of them,” said Mike Zock of MKB Company, a Pennsylvania-based startup that in just two years has become the biggest seller of switchgrass silt socks in the eastern United States.

Switchgrass grown for biofuel production produced 540 percent more energy than needed to grow, harvest and process it into cellulosic ethanol, according to estimates from a large on-farm study by ...

Switchgrass is a perennial grass native to much of the prairie. It grows extremely quickly, sometimes up to 2.2 metres tall. It grows on land not considered suitable for food crops, yielding about ...

Also switchgrass could be grown on marginal farmland not suited to high value crops like corn and soybeans. Hey, we could even grown it on the roof of every Wal-mart in creation!

Switchgrass also has several environmental advantages, Philipp said. It creates an understory that is open enough to permit travel by wildlife, including birds and mammals, Philipp said.

Genomic mechanisms of climate adaptation in polyploid bioenergy switchgrass. Nature, 2021; DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-03127-1 ...

When President Bush spoke during his State of the Union address about turning something called “switchgrass” into a future source of ethanol, thus reducing the United States’ dependence on ...

Switchgrass is the perennial wonder plant touted by President Bush in Tuesday's State of the Union address and in his remarks made today in Nashville, Tenn., where he joked that he could have a ...

Megan Fox, 35, announced Monday that she wouldn't be attending that night's Midnight In The Switchgrass premiere due to rising Covid-19 cases in LA county and its new mask mandate.