Field day taking look at pennycress
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ARENZVILLE The Western Illinois University School of Agriculture and corporate partner CoverCress Inc. will host a field day at Burrus Seed Farm’s research plots beginning at 9 a.m. Friday.
Congressmen Darin LaHood and Rodney Davis are scheduled to attend the event, which is dedicated to field pennycress and the efforts to begin its commercialization.
Additional field days are scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday and 10 a.m. May 20 at the university’s research farm in Macomb.
Western Illinois University agriculture professor Win Phippen was awarded a $10 million bio-fuel federal research grant to study pennycress as a new cash cover crop for the Midwest. The goal is to produce billions of gallons of bio-fuel in the next 25 years.