Researchers say plant biomass in flood plain areas

In Missouri, the director of the University of Missouri’s Center for Agroforestry says that by planting biomass crops in the flood plains of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers rather than corn and soybeans that are currently planted there but are subject to failure, farmers won’t have to replant crops while biomass production would make the areas productive. There are 116 million acres of ‘marginally productive’ lands in the flood plains of the two rivers that could be used for biofuel production instead.