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Renewable Energy and Sustainable Agriculture

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SARE, which provides grants to researchers, agricultural educators, farmers and ranchers, community development practitioners and students, has funded projects exploring renewable energy, such as passive solar greenhouses, alternative biomass production, on-farm biomass conversion methods and methane digesters.

Click on each title to view project reports.

SARE Projects on Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation

Non-Biomass Energy Production
Active and passive solar, and alternative energy greenhouses, solar-powered pumps, and solar-powered fences for grazing systems.

Developing Optimal Shiitake Mushroom Production in a Solar Greenhouse Utilizing Spent Shitake Logs as a Sustainable Heat
Alternative Energy Greenhouse
Year-Round Renewably Heated and Powered Greenhouse
Compost Thermal Subsidies in Commercial Passive Solar Greenhouse Design
Passive Solar Greenhouse Construction and Growing Trial
Solar Vehicle for Farm Use
Solar Heated Aquaculture System
Integrated, Season Extension, Solar Greenhouse
Pedal-Powered Tillage for a Small Community-Supported Farm (CSA)
The Use of Renewable Energy to Improve the Sustainability of Southeastern U.S. Pond Aquaculture: Technical, Economic, and Industry Evaluations of Solar Power Options
Low-Cost Electric Cultivating/Seeding Tractor Conversion of Allis Chalmers "G"

Biomass Energy Production
Plant and animal biomass use in energy, and production potential of alternative feedstocks such as mustard and canola.

Pilot production of Biodiesel From Canola in New England
Cost of Producing Bio-Diesel to Fuel a Greenhouse
Producer Driven Education to Improve Bio-Diversity in Semi-arid and High-Plains Cropping Systems
Demonstrating, Evaluating, and Extending Diversified Direct-Seeded Cropping Systems for Grower Risk-Management in the Inland   
On-Farm Biodiesel Production from Waste Vegetable Oil
Producer Driven Education to Improve Bio-Diversity in Semi-arid and High-Plains Cropping Systems
An Integrated System of Organic Food Production and Urban Food Waste Recycling Using On-Farm Anaerobic Digestion and Fertigation
Manure Nutrient Recycling and Environmental Assurance
Methane Recovery from Small Dairy Operations
Nutrient Recycling in Urban Agriculture
Fixed Film Anaerobic Methane Digester
Livestock and Feedstock: Distiller's Grain and Fuel Ethanol
Teaching Farmers to Make Biodiesel Fuel from Waste Vegetable Oil
Ethanol From Waste Fruit

Extension and Education Projects on Renewable Energy

Energy & Small Farm Sustainability
Climate Change and Agriculture: Preparing Educators to Promote Practical and Profitable Responses
Smart Energy Management for Agriculture

Energy Efficiency and Whole Farm Planning

Smart Energy Management for Agriculture
Energy & Small Farm Sustainability
Minimum Tillage Systems for Cotton: Reduced Energy, Time, and Particulates

 



 

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