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Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Cost Per Acre for Sweet Sorghum Establishment in Central Florida for Ethanol Feedstock.

Posted by Sohail Azad On 02:05 No comments


Equipment, Labor, O&M Costs:
Cost Per Acre:
(initial establishment)
Cost Per Acre:
(on-going operations)
Site Prep (Mowing, Disking, Dozer)
$90.00
$22.50
Spraying Herbicide
$13.50
$13.50
Fertilizer Application
$6.00
$6.00
Planting of Seed
$22.50
$22.50
    Sub-Total
$132.00
$64.50
Materials Costs:
 
 
Fertilizer
$92.00
$92.00
Herbicide
$4.85
$4.85
Seed
$16.66
$16.66
    Sub-Total
$113.51
$113.51
Total Base Cost (sum of above)
$245.51
$178.01
Contingencies @15%
$36.82
$26.70
Total Estimated Cost
$282.33
$204.71


An information search on commercial field production cost of planting sweet sorghum for ethanol indicates that our above cost estimate of $178.01 per acre is comparable to other cost estimates which are in the range of ~$150 per acre.

The continued production goal of Homeland Agricultural Fuels at the Bartow Ethanol facility (a nameplate capacity of 5.4 million gallons per year) is to produce ~600 gallons of ethanol per acre from sorghum (in line with what is currently achieved in Brazil using sugarcane).

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