Hemp Biomass Management (Part 2): Managing for Excellence and Profit By David F. Peterson, B.S, MBA This is the second article in a two-part series (Part 1, Hemp Biomass Management (Part 1): Technology) Since you…
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Hemp Biomass Management: Technology
Hemp Biomass Management (Part 1): Technology Development and Mitigating Scale-up Risks By David F. Peterson, B.S., MBA This is the first article in a two-part series addressing the challenges of implementing and scaling up hemp…
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Industrial Hemp Production: IPM and Wildlife
An Introduction to Industrial Hemp Production (Part II): Integrated Pest Management and Implications for Wildlife By: Susan P. Rupp, PhD (Lee Enterprises Consulting) Because of the challenges of registering it as an agricultural crop, federal…
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Industrial Hemp Production: Cultivation and Management
By: Susan P. Rupp, PhD (Lee Enterprises Consulting) The production of industrial hemp, grown for fiber, seed, and cannabidiol (CBD), has surged in recent years. More recently, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm…
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2020 Cannabis Ballot Measures
By Martin Wahl, Vice President, Lee Enterprises Consulting This is the first in a series of articles being prepared by Lee Enterprises Consulting experts addressing opportunities and concerns for the growing hemp and cannabis industries….
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Isobutanol: A New Product from Revamped Ethanol Plants
Isobutanol: A New Product from Revamped Ethanol Plants? (The following article was written in 2016. Since the publication date BP and DuPont joint venture, Butamax, has started to produce Isobutanol from the Nesika Energy, LLC…
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Butanol – A Versatile Renewable
Is butanol a versatile renewable? Despite the common myth, biomass upgrading is a challenging science. Not only do the practitioners have to break down the complex biomass mixtures efficiently, but they must also contend with…
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Early-stage, Breakthrough Technologies: Biofuels, 10 of the Best
The concept of early stage, breakthrough biofuels technologies is a bit of an oxymoron. At an early stage how does one determine if it something is a “breakthrough” biofuels technology? This article, first published in…
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What’s New and Important About C5 and C6 Sugars?
What’s up with C5 and C6 sugars? Given that a significant portion of the several billion dollars spent on renewable fuels spending involves these molecules, it is not surprising that progress is fast and furious….
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Clean Energy: Steam Reformation Technology
Clean Energy: Steam Reformation Technology By Zoltan Kish, Ph.D., Lee Enterprises Consulting Introduction One possible solution for clean energy production is to produce energy products from waste and biomass feedstocks by effective Biomass/Waste-to-Energy technology applications….
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