Production of Traditional and Emerging Bio-fuel Crops

 

*** Click on the links below to view the VIDEO for the session ***

 

Topics:

• 9:00-9:15 Registration and Distribution of Workshop Materials
• 9:15-9:30 Renewable Fuel-Florida's Energy Future-- Dr. John C. Alleyne
• 9:30-10:15 Agron. Requirements-Sweet Sorghum & Energy Canes--Dr. Zane Helsel
• 10:30-10:45 Coffee/tea break
• 10:45-11:15 Water Quality &Quantity Aspects of Biofuel Production--Dr. Sanjay Shukla
• 11: 15-12:00 Producing Sugar Cane for Ethanol--Dr. Robert Gilbert
• 12:00-12:30 Lunch
• 12:30-1:00 Jatropha As a Potential Biofuel Crop--Dr. Wagner Vendrame
• 1:00-1:30 Fundamentals of Producing Jatropha Curcas--Roy Beckford
• 1:30-2:00 Short Rotation Woody Crops for Biofuel--Dr. Donald Rockwood

 

UF/IFAS Sites

• Agronomy Department
• Department of Animal Sciences
• Food and Resource Economics Department
• IFAS Homepage
• Range Cattle REC
• South Florida Beef-Forage Program
• Southwest Florida REC
• SubTropical Agricultural Research Station (STARS)