What will be the capital cost for a grower to convert to growing energy beets?
None The objective is to use custom planting and harvesting for the energy beets as well as the other rotational crops required for the plant. Custom harvesting will allow farmers to pool their resources and will not require any one farmer to invest in the equipment. Initially, ABC will purchase the custom field equipment but is open to the concept of the growers involved in energy beet production to buy into a custom “cooperative” jointly owned by the growers and ABC. There are no requirements for storage of energy beets at the farm level or at ABC’s production facility.
