Biomass Harvesting & Collection - Center for Advanced BioEnergy ...

Logistics and Transportation The current strategy is to create local, onfarm ,distribution sites for the short-termstorage of feedstock bales. This will mostlikely be a custom hauling businessopportunity as the plants come on-line. Logistics of the feedstock will be the greatestchallenge; the reality is, very few farms/fieldswill be this close to a biorefinery‣ Transportation of the feedstocks could be 30 –50 miles one way‣ Example of truck flow; plant capacity –800,000 DM tons/year; over 31,000 truckloads of large square bales (7.5 trucks perhour, 14 hours/day, 6 days/week, 50weeks/year)Date12