Agricultural Development Board Invests $220,000 in EKU Research

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The Kentucky Agricultural Development Board, chaired by Gov. Steve Beshear, approved Eastern Kentucky University for $200,000 in state and $10,000 each in Clark and Madison County Agricultural Development Funds for the evaluation of biofuel feedstock forages for livestock consumption and biofuel production.

This project will look at the establishment and management of biofuel feedstocks to be used in algae-based biofuel production. The primary feedstock to be studied will be switchgrass. The switchgrass and by-products from processing for biofuel will be evaluated for their nutritional content for use in ruminant feeds and supplements.

Another component of this project will be to evaluate on-farm economics of transitioning from traditional agricultural production to biofuel feedstock production in Kentucky.

This project was one of 18 proposals approved at the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board's August business meeting.

For more information about this project, contact Dr. Don Llewellyn,EKU Department of Agriculture, at (859) 622-2235 or don.llewellyn@eku.edu.

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