Economic Impact of Harvesting Corn Stover under Time Constraint: The Case of North Dakota

Table 1

Estimated corn stover and cob yield by North Dakota climatic division (2005–2009 average).

Region	Harvested acres	Land area	Density	Stover availability		Cob availability
	(Acre)	(Acre)	(%)	(Ton/acre)	(Ton)	(Ton/acre)	(Ton)
Northwest	13,538	5,852,864	0.23	0.44	5,917	0.22	3,019
North central	72,434	4,379,872	1.65	0.61	43,981	0.31	22,439
North east	190,637	5,451,379	3.50	0.75	143,355	0.38	73,140
West central	36,781	5,523,571	0.67	0.61	22,467	0.31	11,463
Central	206,691	4,531,546	4.56	0.79	163,703	0.40	83,522
East central	493,067	3,545,363	13.91	0.99	486,232	0.50	248,078
Southwest	29,792	5,114,694	0.58	0.33	9,964	0.17	5,083
South central	92,891	5,006,605	1.86	0.57	52,689	0.29	26,882
Southeast	684,987	4,738,701	14.46	1.03	704,635	0.52	359,508
State total	1,820,818	44,144,595	4.60*	0.68*	1,632,943	0.35*	833,134

Note: harvested acres are weighted by yield. ∗represents state average.