Coppicing

As I dive deeper into this biomass project, my desire to share my discoveries grow. Today's personal biomass phenomenon is coppicing, the process of cutting trees down to their stumps to encourage regrowth. Coppicing has become very popular process in Europe in the creation of woody biomass crops of hybrid poplar and willows. Check out the video below.. the beginners guide to coppicing.

Planting Biomass Crops

MISCANTHUS


SWITCHGRASS



HARVESTING REED CANARY GRASS

OPG's video on Biomass

ALSO

Check out this article...

http://www.topcropmanager.com/content/view/576/38/

Claire Venne's Presentation on EFP

Dan's Presentation From Friday's Annual Meeting

New crop camera for weather station Nov 19/09
giving a greater number of people a look at crop growth for 2010

What did we do accomplish in 2009?

in conjunction with the year of the IPM ”
• with OMAFRA summer student Chandel Gambles
1. calcium chloride applied on a hay field for dry cow feed
2. herbicide evaluation to control “Smooth bedstraw”
3. corn silage plots at Ferme Rivadale IPM site
4. grain corn plots at Loranlee Farms (Basil Loranger)
5. crop display at the education tent IPM


for more information please attene the Crops Coalition Anual meeting Friday November 20th in Earlton at the Grand Boulevard Restaurant. Copy of the annual report are also available on request. Please call 705-647-2085