Volume 10 , Issue 42

Noble Foundation, OSU Collaborate Study Sweet Sorghum for Ethanol

"Researchers with The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation and Oklahoma State University (OSU) recently tested a new harvesting and extraction system for sweet sorghum. The innovative process could play a future role in ethanol production for regional farmers and ranchers.

The Noble Foundation's Jagadeesh Mosali, Ph.D., and Drs. Dani Bellmer and Ray Huhnke with the Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Department at OSU tested the juice expression efficiency of a sweet sorghum roller press, which is designed to simulate a new mechanical harvest system developed by an entrepreneur that cuts and presses sweet sorghum in a single action.

The field trial, which took place at the Noble Foundation's Dupy Farm near Gene Autry, Okla., comes at the conclusion of the first year of a three-year study on sweet sorghum. The joint Noble Foundation-OSU study is designed to determine the yield and quality of sweet sorghum's forage under different nitrogen rates as well as improve pressing and fermentation methods for possible ethanol production. Noble Foundation, OSU Collaborate Study Sweet Sorghum for Ethanol" -- submitted by Homer Hawkins
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