Agricultural fuel crops: 201-County Tennessee Valley region policy assessment

Technical Report · Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:6014187

D'Souza, G E; Bohac, C E

Almost no fuel can be produced without environmental implications. Similarly, the production of crops for fuel is associated with certain externalities. The primary one is the erosive nature of some of these fuel crops, causing a long-term loss in soil productivity. This environmental spillover was examined within the framework of two fuel crop production scenarios, impacts from these scenarios assumed to be the upper bounds for those that could possibly occur. Corn was used as a surrogate crop for the assessment, which was limited to the 201 counties of the Tennessee Valley region, and included a timeframe extending to the year 2000. Due to the paucity of data and time limitations, a large portion of this discussion was based more on casual observation rather than hard empirical evidence. 30 refs., 1 fig., 2 tabs.

• Research Organization: Tennessee Valley Authority, Chattanooga (USA). Office of Natural Resources and Economic Development
• OSTI ID: 6014187
• Report Number(s): TVA/ONRED/AWR-85/10; ON: DE86901134
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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