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City Grows Biocrops to Attract Biofuel Industry
US - The city of Tuscola in Illinois is growing biocrops on city-owned land near to the waste water treatment plant as part of an effort to attract biofuel-related industry to the area.The project is also designed to help develop a market for the crops to aid area farmers.
Brian Moody, executive director of Tuscola Economic Development Inc., told The News Gazette that the city had been working with a tenant farmer, Dan Meyer, to plant reed canary grass on 160 acres of land the city owns by the wastewater-treatment plant.
The grass can be converted into pellets to heat homes and other buildings.
Next year, the report says the city is considering replacing the canary grass with miscanthus, another crop that may be used for energy production.
City officials have also been talking with Duke Energy, which operates a power plant at Tuscola's Lyondell chemical-manufacturing plant, about converting the facility so that a portion of its power would come from the biofuels.
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