Wisconsin Sustainable Planting and Harvest Guidelines for Non-forest Biomass? on Public and Private Lands
These Guidelines are an effort to encourage decision-making and land use practices that benefit farmers financially while protecting the state’s natural resources.
Growing and harvesting biomass? for bioenergy? has many potential benefits for society, farmers and land managers. There are also many challenges, particularly for the farmer including deciding what to grow and how, how to achieve greater sustainability, finding up-to-date agronomic and technical information, getting connected to markets, financing, and profitability. Ultimately, farmers will need to discover how to balance the benefits and challenges in ways that are suitable to their particular circumstances. The chart below provides a generalized view of the complexities of decision-making related to biomass production.
