Prospects for dedicated energy crop production and attitudes towards agricultural straw use: the case of livestock farmers

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Prospects for dedicated energy crop production and attitudes towards agricultural straw use: the case of livestock farmers

Second generation biofuels utilising agricultural by-products (e.g. straw), or dedicated energy crops (DECs) produced on ‘marginal’ land, have been called for. A structured telephone survey of 263 livestock farmers, predominantly located in the west or ‘marginal’ upland areas of England captured dat...

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Main Authors:	Wilson, P., Glithero, N.J., Ramsden, Stephen J.
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier 2014
Subjects:	Bioenergy; Livestock farmers; Marginal land
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37468/

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