Farmer Attitudes Toward Production of Perennial Energy Grasses in East Central Illinois
Implications for Community-Based Decision Making
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8375828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miriam A Cope (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Sara Mclafferty, L Mclafferty (0000-0001-8413-7562, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Bruce L Rhoads (0000-0003-2112-745X, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 852-862 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00045608.2011.575320 |
| OpenAlex | W1977728238 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 42 |
Throughout the Midwestern United States, land owners and managers, mainly farmers, are increasingly considering the possibility of transforming industrial agricultural landscapes that currently are used almost strictly for food production to landscapes that include renewable energy production. Because most land in this region is privately owned and independently farmed, transformation of the landscape will be the product of myriad decisions by individual farmers. Little is known about the geographic, environmental, and sociocultural forces that influence farmers’ decisions. We use survey methods and a geographic information system (GIS)-aided focus group to elicit farmers’ perspectives on growing perennial energy grasses such as switchgrass in central Illinois. Approximately one third of surveyed farmers are willing to plant energy grasses if a local market exists. Farmers’ planting decisions are bound up with their understandings of land suitability for planting at the farmstead and regional scales. Through a GIS-aided focus group, participants defined lands suitable for energy grass production—marginal lands—not purely in environmental terms but in relation to existing cropping patterns, farming operations, land parcel characteristics, and the social relations of farming. We find that farmers perceive an array of economic, social, and geographic barriers to energy grass cultivation and that these perspectives deserve attention in renewable energy policy debates
Agricultural economics · Agroforestry · Agronomy · Biology · Economics · Geography · Perennial plant · Production (economics) · Bioenergy crop production and management · Environmental Science · Forest Management and Policy · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,73 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |