POET’s Project LIBERTY Field Day Showcases New Equipment, Outlines New Federal Programs for Farmers to Start Collecting Biomass
Farmers today witnessed the rapid progress being made toward solving a key challenge to commercial cellulosic ethanol production: establishing the feedstock infrastructure and market.
At POET’s Project LIBERTY Field Day, 16 companies showcased equipment to help make the process of harvesting corn cobs and residue quick, easy and profitable. At the same time, officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Energy talked with area farmers about money to help procure equipment and matching payments for the biomass.
Project LIBERTY is POET’s planned 25 million-gallon-per-year cellulosic ethanol plant in Emmetsburg. READ MORE