Forestry, intensive short-rotation

A further possibility for wood fuel production is for intensive short-rotation forestry when small trees might be harvested every five or ten years with a mobile mower/chipper laid out similarly to a grain combine. Such a machine might be expected to cover one acre per hour for a throughput of about 20... 

Woody biomass This can be produced by forestry (i.e., firewood from natural or intensively managed forests), agriculture (i.e., short-rotation plantations of fastgrowing trees such as poplar or willow), or as residues... 

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