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kdawg7736 [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-12-01 9:06:57 PM  
This story is pretty corny.
 
elaw [BareFark]  
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2020-12-01 9:13:21 PM  
Yeah it just doesn't appeal to my pallet.
 
2020-12-01 9:18:15 PM  
"The natives called it maize"

No we didn't, at least around here
 
2020-12-01 9:18:22 PM  
Stalks, husks & leaves

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2020-12-01 9:19:46 PM  
Cool news; uses waste byproduct and is commercially viable.

/just hope this isn't another subsidized product
 
ClavellBCMI [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-12-01 9:24:01 PM  

Resident Muslim: Cool news; uses waste byproduct and is commercially viable.

/just hope this isn't another subsidized product


Of course the corn industry will find a way to get Uncle Sam to pay for it, because the corn lobby is that damn powerful.
 
morg  
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2020-12-01 9:24:44 PM  
What do they do with the stover now? Plow it back into the ground? Burn it?
 
edmo [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-12-01 9:28:51 PM  
That make a lot of neat stuff: link

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anuran [TotalFark]  
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2020-12-01 9:30:20 PM  

Resident Muslim: Cool news; uses waste byproduct and is commercially viable.

/just hope this isn't another subsidized product


Unfortunately it means the stover doesn't get plowed back in to enrich the soil
 
2020-12-01 9:31:17 PM  
Good, we can stop cutting down trees and leave forests alone.

I am 100% on board with this.
 
anuran [TotalFark]  
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2020-12-01 9:31:21 PM  

morg: What do they do with the stover now? Plow it back into the ground? Burn it?


Usually plow it back in (good) but sometimes burn it (bad)
 
2020-12-01 9:32:21 PM  

anuran: Resident Muslim: Cool news; uses waste byproduct and is commercially viable.

/just hope this isn't another subsidized product

Unfortunately it means the stover doesn't get plowed back in to enrich the soil


But that doesn't make them any money!
 
2020-12-01 9:36:13 PM  
Sounds like a disease that'd keep you out of the army.
 
2020-12-01 9:39:12 PM  
Is it instead of or in addition to turning it into ethanol?
It's been a while but I remember that the ethanol from corn wasn't saving us any carbon emissions and amounted to a handout for farmers.
 
2020-12-01 9:43:34 PM  

ClavellBCMI: anuran: Resident Muslim: Cool news; uses waste byproduct and is commercially viable.

/just hope this isn't another subsidized product

Unfortunately it means the stover doesn't get plowed back in to enrich the soil

But that doesn't make them any money!


Good soil IS money. Pay it forward. What i'd like to do is find a use for our thousands of tons of pine needles that we get every year. Plowing pine needles under is pretty much useless as they acidify the soil...
 
Billy Liar  
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2020-12-01 9:44:38 PM  

The Irresponsible Captain: Is it instead of or in addition to turning it into ethanol?
It's been a while but I remember that the ethanol from corn wasn't saving us any carbon emissions and amounted to a handout for farmers.


Heartland values...Saved us from socialism
 
2020-12-01 9:47:31 PM  
skiinstructor:

When the farmland dies either suburbs are ready or you can greenhouse the land
 
Petey4335  
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2020-12-01 9:55:43 PM  

skiinstructor: ClavellBCMI: anuran: Resident Muslim: Cool news; uses waste byproduct and is commercially viable.

/just hope this isn't another subsidized product

Unfortunately it means the stover doesn't get plowed back in to enrich the soil

But that doesn't make them any money!

Good soil IS money. Pay it forward. What i'd like to do is find a use for our thousands of tons of pine needles that we get every year. Plowing pine needles under is pretty much useless as they acidify the soil...


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2020-12-01 9:59:16 PM  
Awesome!

Now don't use it to transport the steel and equipment I need. Farking pine gets farked enough, corn husks are gonna be a farking shiatshow.

(Always save the oak pallets folks, that's great stuff)

Guess you could press em into a resin mold?
 
Enigmamf [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-12-01 9:59:29 PM  
Resident Muslim: Cool news; uses waste byproduct and is commercially viable.

/just hope this isn't another subsidized product


Except insofar as ethanol subsidies have driven up the amount of byproducts available.

On the plus side, every product sold from the waste products of ethanol improves the energy-return-on-energy-invested for ethanol. The best example of that before spent brewer's grain was fed into the cattle grain supply, the EROEI for ethanol appeared negative; but after accounting for the corn feed displaced by the use of brewer's grain, EROEI was about 2:1

ClavellBCMI: anuran: Unfortunately it means the stover doesn't get plowed back in to enrich the soil

But that doesn't make them any money!


It reduces the need for soil augmentation, which costs money. Farmers aren't dumb, if the augmentation costs them more than they sell the waste for, they won't do it.
 
2020-12-01 10:02:07 PM  

edmo: That make a lot of neat stuff: link

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Pallets coming from the southeast are usually oak, west coast pallets tend to be pinewood. Sometimes paying for a pallet when you have freight shipped is totes worth it.
 
amb  
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2020-12-01 10:06:36 PM  
The dried husks are great for wrapping tamales.
 
foxtail  
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2020-12-01 10:11:47 PM  
The stalks don't put much back into the soil. What comes out of the back door of the cattle and pigs the kernels are fed to is better by orders of magnitude. Since they use it for bedding, it usually ends up back in the fields, but if they can make more money from the stalks by selling them, they will.
 
bucket_pup [TotalFark]  
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2020-12-01 10:31:15 PM  

Bennie Crabtree: Good, we can stop cutting down trees and leave forests alone.

I am 100% on board with this.


Yeah, let's leave those pesky forests alone......
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2020-12-01 11:30:17 PM  

elaw: Yeah it just doesn't appeal to my pallet.


But they'll be colorful.
 
2020-12-01 11:47:24 PM  

skiinstructor: ClavellBCMI: anuran: Resident Muslim: Cool news; uses waste byproduct and is commercially viable.

/just hope this isn't another subsidized product

Unfortunately it means the stover doesn't get plowed back in to enrich the soil

But that doesn't make them any money!

Good soil IS money. Pay it forward. What i'd like to do is find a use for our thousands of tons of pine needles that we get every year. Plowing pine needles under is pretty much useless as they acidify the soil...


Sell it to or barter with folks that have acid loving plants.  We have blackberry canes & creepers, black and red raspberries (canes/bushes), blueberry bushes, azaleas and two rhododendron bushes.  Some of our annual kitchen garden crops and flowers prefer soil that leans acidic as well.

The SE corner of our lot gets a fair amount of dropped needles thanks to the neighbor's border trees in that corner.  We rake some up for slow release soil amendment each year.  (Except for the blackberry canes, as they are planted near the trees in question, so no amendment needed.)
 
Holy Carp  
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2020-12-02 12:17:37 AM  

Bennie Crabtree: Good, we can stop cutting down trees and leave forests alone.

I am 100% on board with this.


Maybe we should grow forests instead of corn
 
EL EM  
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2020-12-02 12:32:02 AM  

Axeofjudgement: Awesome!

Now don't use it to transport the steel and equipment I need. Farking pine gets farked enough, corn husks are gonna be a farking shiatshow.

(Always save the oak pallets folks, that's great stuff)

Guess you could press em into a resin mold?


I built a compost bin out of oak pallets: the nails broke down faster than the wood.
 
2020-12-02 12:53:32 AM  
Anytime you can convert a waste product into something useful and more valuable it's a good thing.
 
GalFisk  
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2020-12-02 2:37:15 AM  
Amaizing.
 
tcaptain  
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2020-12-02 10:14:04 AM  

edmo: That make a lot of neat stuff: link

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Wow...they made her from cornboard?  I see big bucks coming their way!

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