Life-cycle energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of production of bioethanol from sorghum in the United States

Table 5 Yields of sorghum biomass and components as ethanol production feedstock

	GS	SS^a[29, 54]	FS
Biomass yield (fresh tonne/hectare)		76	85^b
Biomass moisture content (%)		72	73 [31]
Grain yield (tonne/hectare)	3.4 [9]	2.9
Sugar yield (tonne/hectare)		6.6
Bagasse yield (dry tonne/hectare)		12	23 [9]

^a The yields are based on field experiments in the absence of data from large-scale production in the US;
^b Estimated based on the dry matter yield of 23 tonne per hectare and the reported moisture content of 73% for FS.

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