Completed Competitive Grant

Potential to operate greenhouses and aquaculture in conjunction with Iowa's ethanol plants

Project ID: M2007-08

Abstract

Iowans looking for value-added enterprises to pair with ethanol plants can consider greenhouses and aquaculture operations as options.

Key Question: What are the options for farmers interested in enterprises to link with ethanol production?

Findings: The project describes situations in the United States where greenhouse and/or aquaculture operations have been paired with power plants to take advantage of inexpensive energy. The contributing authors offer opinions about the hurdles that need to be overcome to make these businesses successful and suggest plant crops and fish species that would be valuable in the marketplace.

Lead investigator: Ray Hansen, ISU Value Added Agriculture Extension, et al

Year of grant completion: 2008

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Marketing Initiative.

Topics: Bioeconomy and energy

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