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LARGE-SCALE HYBRID POPLAR PRODUCTION ECONOMICS: 1995
ALEXANDRIA, MINNESOTA ESTABLISHMENT COST AND MANAGEMENT
Mark Downing, Dan Langseth, Ron Stoffel, and Tom Kroll'
ABSTRACT
The Minnesota Wood Energy Scale-up Project planning began in late 1993. Cooperators
include the WesMin Resource Conservation and Development Council, US Department
of Energy's Biofuels Feedstock Development Program at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, the Electric Power Research Institute, the US Forest Service at Rhinelander,
WI, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources - Forestry, and others. In spring
1994, Phase I of the project established 1000 acres of trees. Phase II, documented here,
includes plantings established on 870 acres by June 1995. The purpose of the entire
project is to track and monitor economic costs of planting, maintaining and monitoring
larger scale commercial plantings. In addition, accurate descriptive mapping of the soil
classes and specific soil types, combined with specific site maps of hybrid poplar clones,
and subsequent annual growth measurements during the first rotation will assist
researchers in developing reliable site productivity functions. These site productivity
functions will provide valuable information to support continued basic research on
genetic enhancement and species screening to help assure producers reliable yields across
representative soils in a production region. Major findings are the per-farm costs of
establishment and maintenance for establishment year, machinery complements used, and
methods of management. In addition, an average cost of establishment across 1000 and
2000 acres is profiled. These costs assist potential growers and purchasers of this resource
to determine the ways in which supply and demand may be secured through developing
markets. For these proceedings, average production costs are documented, and the
management scenario is presented for establishment for Phase II planting completed in
June 1995. For documentation of 1994 Phase I establishment, please refer to Downing, et
al., 1996.
Keywords: hybrid poplar, production economics, wood energy
BACKGROUND
For 15 years, only smaller scale research and experimental plantings of hybrid poplar
have been utilized to screen for promising high-yielding candidate species. Currently,
Downing, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6422, Langseth,
WesMin RC&D, 910 Hwy 29 North, #103, Alexandria, MN 56308, Stoffel, MN DNR, 2605 Aga Drive,
Unit 6, Alexandria, MN 56308, Kroll, MN DNR, Forestry Division, 500 Lafayette Rd., St. Paul MN
55155-4044.
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Downing, M.; Langseth, D.; Stoffel, R. & Kroll, T. Large-scale hybrid poplar production economics: 1995 Alexandria, Minnesota establishment cost and management, article, December 31, 1996; Tennessee. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc675487/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.