Abstract
On-farm production of food and fiber uses about 3% of the annual U.S. energy consumption. About one-third of this energy is directly from fossil fuels used in farm tractors and trucks and for crop drying, while about one-fourth is used in manufacturing and transporting fertilizers. Tillage and N fertilizers are the two largest uses of energy in non-irrigated product ion of crops which are not dried artificially. Thus, the greatest effects of energy conservation can be achieved in these two areas.
Publication Date
12-1982
Volume
3
Number
11
Repository Citation
Frye, Wilbur W., "Energy Conservation in Corn Production" (1982). Soil Science News and Views. 162.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/pss_views/162
