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Sebastian Ramm, Hans Heinrich Voßhenrich, Mario Hasler, Yves Reckleben and Eberhard Hartung
The European corn borer is a major pest of corn that overwinters in corn stubble and stalks. Shredding these residues disrupts the larvae?s habitat or directly harms them. A corn header has been engineered with a new type of cutting tool on its horizonta...
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Xiuying Xu, Yingying Gao, Changhao Fu, Jinkai Qiu and Wei Zhang
The cover of corn stover has a significant effect on the emergence and growth of soybean seedlings. Detecting corn stover covers is crucial for assessing the extent of no-till farming and determining subsidies for stover return; however, challenges such ...
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Jawad Ullah, Shanshuai Chen, Yunze Ruan, Akhtar Ali, Noor Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Nafees Ur Rehman and Pingshan Fan
Straw returning is an environmentally friendly method to improve soil health and agricultural productivity by reusing organic waste products. However, fields are often also treated with inorganic fertilizers, and the effect of the interaction between pho...
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René Morissette, Philippe Savoie and Joey Villeneuve
Combustion trials were conducted with corn stover (CS) and wheat straw (WS) round bales in a 176-kW boiler (model Farm 2000). Hot water (80 °C) stored in a 30,000-L water tank was transferred to a turkey barn through a plate exchanger. Gross calorific va...
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Dorde Medic, Matthew Darr, Ajay Shah and Sarah Rahn
Large scale biofuel production will be possible only if significant quantities of biomass feedstock can be stored, transported, and processed in an economic and sustainable manner. Torrefaction has the potential to significantly reduce the cost of transp...
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René Morissette, Philippe Savoie and Joey Villeneuve
Spring harvested corn stover was used for direct combustion in a 146 kW dual chamber boiler designed for wood logs. Stover had a very low moisture content (6.83 ± 0.17%), a gross calorific value (GCV) of 18.57 MJ/kg of dry matter (±0.32 MJ/kg DM) and an ...
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