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By VIMAL PATEL I-
oinaal.patel@theeaglexom
Bill Rooney, a plant scientist and Texas
A&M associate professor, gripped two types
f sorghum as he explained how cutting
dge breeding of the two led to the creation" 1
of the towering 12-foot-tall sorghum behind
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gy production.
i he explanation came in a field next to
, 60 outside College Station as Texas
;riLife researchers showed off the
ency's ground-level bioenergy research to o
-roup of reporters Thursday. The tour
s caked through the nearby Texas A&M ` `
esearch Farm and included a demonstra
ti on of a cotton module builder that lifted a
fi ve-ton stack of chopped sorghum. The I¢
Thine showed how large amounts of the
ristock could be stored and hauled.
We need to have a diverse energy pro-
1n in our count
ry,,> said Robert Avant Jr.,
rector of the AgriLife Research bioenergy Eagle photos by Stuart Villanueva
Tram. "Bioenergy is just one of the tools Top: Alex Klattenhoff harvests stalks of energy sorghum to be analyzed at the Texas A&M
AgriLife Research bioenergy program Thursday. Above: Robert Avant Jr., director of the bloener-
BIOFUEL, Page A7 ;y program, leads a tour through a sorghum field.
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