REAP-Canada Presents: The Great Lakes Grass Energy Symposium
Getting Back to the Basics
This symposium will feature leading technical specialists and farmers from the
- Best management practices for establishing native grasses
- Available native grass cultivars and potential to improve yield through
breeding - Recent technology developments for improving mowing and baling of energy
grasses - Creating biomass quality in grasses to ensure high quality combustion
- Experiences with low cost briquetting of switchgrass and burning warm season grasses in commercial boilers.
*Daniel Arnett- Biomass Coordinator, Ernst Conservation Seeds,
*Dr. Fernando Preto & Irene Coyle- CANMET Energy Technology Centre, NRCAN,
*Dr. Martin Roberge- Project Engineer, Case New
*Dr. Paul Salon- Plant Materials Center USDA NRCS, Big Flats NY
*Roger Samson- Executive Director, REAP-Canada,
Farmer Experience Exchange:
*Calvin Ernst- Founder, Ernst Conservation Seeds,
*Don Nott- Nott Farms,
Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to stay up to date on energy grass technological advances and to network with farmers, bioenergy project developers, industry and government.
For more information and to register, click here: http://www.guelphorganicconf.ca/thursday09.html
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