USDA ready to make incentive payments for biomass aggregation

According to a report in Fresh Plaza, the USDA has announced that phase one of its Biomass Crop Assistance Program, in this phase relating to collection and delivery of wood waste, is now ready to make federal incentive payments.

Producers or entities are eligible for up to a dollar per dollar match, up to $45 per dry ton, for the value of the biomass that is delivered to a designated biomass conversion facility. “For example: if a producer is paid $30 per dry ton for the biomass by the conversion facility the producer would be eligible for a $30 per dry ton payment for the costs associated with collecting, harvesting, transporting and storing the product,” said a USDA descriptor of the service.

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