As the anaerobic digestion of energy crops and crop residues becomes more widely applied for bioenergy production, planners operators biogas plants, farmers who consider growing such crops, have a need information on potential methane yields. A rich body literature reports yields variety materials. These data been obtained with different testing methods. This work elaborates an overview types s...

In response to our article on the water footprint (WF) of bioenergy (1), Maes et al. (2) argue that we overestimated the WF of jatropha oil, used data from a limited number of plantations , and made methodological errors. We did use little data, because hardly any data on jatropha production are available. Although we took data from various plantations from different countries, Maes et al. stat...

In the southeastern U.S. Coastal Plains, supplemental irrigation is required to reduce the impact of short‐term droughts and yield‐reducing plant water stress that can occur at least biennially. Sprinkler irrigation is commonly used to water agronomic crops in the region. Microirrigation is typically used for high value fruit and vegetable crops. In recent years and at some locations, microirri...

In the long run, climate change could affect agriculture in several ways such as quantity and quality of crops terms productivity, growth rates, photosynthesis transpiration moisture availability etc. Climate is likely to directly influence food production across globe. An increase mean seasonal temperature shorten duration many thus reduce yields. areas where already close physiological maxima...

Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] is one of the four major staple crops and world's most important vegetable protein source. Very little information available on performance, yield, cultivars soybean when choosing a cultivar to grow in Pacific Northwest (PNW). Of oilseed crops, appears have best potential be grown at profit (high yields) PNW considering high input costs for irrigated crops. The ...

628 Abstract: Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) and pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.), ranking fifth and sixth in global cereal hectarage, respectively, are the most important coarse-grain cereals in the semi-arid tropical regions of Asia and Africa. Pearl millet displays better adaptation to and is grown in relatively more marginal environments than sorghum. Under subsistence f...