No company is doing this, but several are attempting to modify their stoves to better manage high ash fuels.

Routine (weekly) maintenance is recommended for burning any type of pelleted material (including wood pellets) in any pellet stove. Aside from dumping ash at necessary intervals, the heat exchanger and burn pot area will need cleaning at least once a week. The flue pipes should be inspected for buildup at regular intervals.

Most likely not. Average pellet stoves with a standard burn pot are not designed to cope with high ash content. In general, corn stoves will have more potential to handle grass pellets because they are designed to deal with a somewhat messy residue. This is no guarantee that corn stoves will burn grass, corn stoves sometimes have difficulty dealing with corn.

Not yet. The major advantage of boilers over stoves is that they provide hot water and central hot water heating. Commercially available pellet boilers are designed to burn wood pellets and possibly corn pellets. They have no means of dealing with high ash content. They can successfully burn grass pellets, but will generate a large clinker that would need to be removed from the burn chamber every 6 hours or so, in order for the boiler to continue functioning.

As with coal or wood stoves, and wood pellet stoves, routine maintenance is required. Pellet handling and ash removal make this less convenient than fossil fuels. There are some emissions as is the case with burning anything, but nothing like the wood stoves of the past.

The product specifically tested and listed for use with pellet stoves is PL vent pipe, labeled as tested to UL 641. PL vent pipe is double wall pipe; the stainless steel inner pipe that carries the exhaust products is separated from the outer wall by an air space. Pipe joints must be sealed gas tight to prevent exhaust products moving through the vent under pressure from leaking into the home. Stoves tested and listed with PL vent requirements cannot safely be vented with substitute materials.

We have the only site burning cool-season grass pellets in North America that we know of. REAP-Canada is burning switchgrass pellets in a Dell-Point Industries Europa stove. Switchgrass pellets are also being burned in Iowa in a Country Flame Technologies Harvester stove.

All grass species and mixtures. Legumes may not work quite as well but also may be acceptable. Grass crop selection should match the soil type, for maximum sustainability and productivity.

The Northeast. For many decades the Northeastern US has been officially labeled as the “Hay & Pasture” Region of the country. Like much of Europe, the temperate humid climate is not so hot for corn, but perfect for grass.

Not much. One “Proof of Concept” demonstration of a pelleting unit providing fuel for local clientele with stoves capable of burning grass might be all the jump start required.

There are a few differences between wood and coal burning units. Please contact us direct to disucss this at (800)750-2723.

At the current time, the Harman corn stove appears capable of handling grass pellets at least up to 5.2% ash content, without any modifications to the stove.

Grass has no political lobby. A grass roots effort is not enough. (Washington State has funded a project to burn bluegrass stubble in a downdraft gasifier).

No. The use of the ditch belongs to the ditch company that maintains it. Fires set in ditches can easily get out of control. All open burning requires a permit from Fire Prevention.

Unlike other systems, the FertiGator only works when the irrigation system timer is intentionally opening zones. In addition, "the micro-dosing injection rate of the system is designed to prevent this from ever happening. This means the fertilizer in that water will be very diluted. You will have a greener area, but you will not burn or damage the turf."

For pellets up to 5mg we recommend using one of our precision trochars. Detailed instructions for implantation using the trochar or for pellets larger than 5mg can be found on our website, click here. Also, if you are implanting both placebo pellets and pellets containing the active product concurrently and you are using a trochar, implant the placebos first to avoid any residual active product contaminating the placebo pellets.

Are milling operations, dimensional and manufacturing plant are all located in Ashland, Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Superior. We recover water logs from across the northern US and southern Canada.

We have weekly meetings in Evans 122 on Thursdays at 7 pm. You are invited to come. We have free snacks during most meetings. We write letters to raise awareness about human rights violations. We write to foreign governments, such as Sudan and China, and we write to our elected officials here in the US about violations within our country. Our members write and sign letters (pre-written letters are available to sign) and BCAI pays for the postage.