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Book Chapter in “Agriculture as a Producer and Consumer of Energy” – Toward Energy Self-Sufficiency: The Small Farm Energy Project Experience | 1982
Excerpt from: Agriculture as a Producer and Consumer of Energy, Copyright • 1982 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science 3. Toward Energy Self-Sufficiency: The Small Farm Energy Project Experience Roger Blobaum The concept of energy self-sufficiency for American agriculture is receiving increasing attention. Steadily rising farm fuel and electricity costs, which totaled…
Read MorePresention At The Caribbean Renewable Energy Symposium, Kingston, Jamaica – Solar Applications in U.S. Agriculture | 1981
Presented by Roger Blobaum, At Caribbean Renewable Energy Symposium, Kingston, Jamaica, July 28-30, 1981 Although the agricultural production system consumes only about 3 percent of the energy used in the United States, the concept of energy self-sufficiency for agriculture has received a good deal of attention. Steadily rising energy prices and the possibility of supply…
Read MoreStatement for Joint Hearing to the House and Senate on Energy Conservation & Supply | 1979
Statement Prepared By Roger Blobaum, Principal Investor of the Small Farm Energy Project For Joint Hearing of the House Energy Development & Application Subcommittee and Senate Subcommittee on Energy Conservation & Supply Washington, D.C. April 30, 1979 Mr. Chairman, I am appearing today as the principal investigator of the Small Farm Energy Project, a national…
Read MoreStatement to House Agriculture Committee On Energy Saving Innovations Of Small Farmers | 1977
Statement of Roger Blobaum, Roger Blobaum & Associates to the Subcommittee on Family Farms, Rural Development, and Special Studies, House Agriculture Committee, Washington, DC May 24, 1977 Mr. Chairman, I am appearing today as principal investigator of the Small Farm Energy Project, a national research and demonstration project sponsored by the Center for Rural Affairs…
Read MoreResearch Article in “The American Journal of Agricultural Economics” – Economic Performance and Energy Intensiveness on Organic and Conventional Farms | 1977
Economic Performance and Energy Intensiveness on Organic and Conventional Farms in the Corn Belt: A Preliminary Comparison Printed in American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 59, No 1, February 1977 Robert Klepper, William Lockeretz, Barry Commoner, Michael Gertler, Sarah Fast, Daniel O’Leary, and Roger Blobaum Recent energy and environmental problems in U.S. agriculture have stimulated…
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