Seminar
Time:
Agronomy and Production of US Rubber Seminar
Date:
10:00 am
Panhandle Research and Extension Center Room: Bluestem
4502 Avenue I
Scottsbluff NE 69361-4939
Scottsbluff NE 69361-4939
Contact:
Dave Ostdiek, (308) 632-1252
A global authority on alternative rubber production will speak June 16 in Scottsbluff about two crops that can be farmed to produce natural rubber.
The seminar starts at 10 a.m. June 16 in the Bluestem Room at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center. It is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. The speaker is Dr. Katrina Cornish of The Ohio State University.
Natural rubber is a strategic raw material essential to the manufacture of 50,000 different rubber and latex products. Cornish will discuss two contrasting alternate temperate rubber-producing crops that are under development in the United States, each with distinct growing regions, agronomic requirements, and markets.
Guayule, a perennial that produces a unique latex, is suited to semiarid regions and tolerates extreme heat, but is intolerant of waterlogging and snow cover. A possible new industrial crop for Nebraska is rubber dandelion, which can be grown as an annual and incorporated into existing rotation schemes. But weed control and harvesting remain major issues, and fertigation has yet to be optimized. Its rubber is almost identical to that from the Brazilian rubber tree.
Cornish is the Ohio Research Scholar and Endowed Chair in Bioemergent Materials. She holds a joint appointment in Horticulture and Crop Science, and Food, Agricultural and Biological Science, in the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center of The Ohio State University.
She is the leading global expert on alternate rubber production, processing and products, from circumallergenic latex to liquid biofuels from byproducts, and her research and inventions form the foundation of the alternate rubber industry. Katrina leads a program on alternate rubber production from biotechnological crop improvement to product development. Her program is coupled to conversion of nonrubber constituents to fuels, and exploitation of opportunity feedstocks from agriculture and food processing wastes for value-added bioproducts and biofuels.
Cornish has worked in academia, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and industry. She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of NARA (North American Renewable Fuels Alliance), on ASTM and ISO rubber standards committees, and on several journal editorial boards. She has more than 200 publications and about 23 patents or patents pending. In addition, she is CEO of four start-up companies, EnergyEne Inc., EnergyEne Australia Pty. Ltd, EnergyEne Africa, and DamSafe LLC.
Cornish received a bachelor of science degree (first-class honours) in biological sciences (1978) and a Ph.D. in Plant Biology (1982), both from the University of Birmingham, England.
The seminar starts at 10 a.m. June 16 in the Bluestem Room at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center. It is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. The speaker is Dr. Katrina Cornish of The Ohio State University.
Natural rubber is a strategic raw material essential to the manufacture of 50,000 different rubber and latex products. Cornish will discuss two contrasting alternate temperate rubber-producing crops that are under development in the United States, each with distinct growing regions, agronomic requirements, and markets.
Guayule, a perennial that produces a unique latex, is suited to semiarid regions and tolerates extreme heat, but is intolerant of waterlogging and snow cover. A possible new industrial crop for Nebraska is rubber dandelion, which can be grown as an annual and incorporated into existing rotation schemes. But weed control and harvesting remain major issues, and fertigation has yet to be optimized. Its rubber is almost identical to that from the Brazilian rubber tree.
Cornish is the Ohio Research Scholar and Endowed Chair in Bioemergent Materials. She holds a joint appointment in Horticulture and Crop Science, and Food, Agricultural and Biological Science, in the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center of The Ohio State University.
She is the leading global expert on alternate rubber production, processing and products, from circumallergenic latex to liquid biofuels from byproducts, and her research and inventions form the foundation of the alternate rubber industry. Katrina leads a program on alternate rubber production from biotechnological crop improvement to product development. Her program is coupled to conversion of nonrubber constituents to fuels, and exploitation of opportunity feedstocks from agriculture and food processing wastes for value-added bioproducts and biofuels.
Cornish has worked in academia, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and industry. She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of NARA (North American Renewable Fuels Alliance), on ASTM and ISO rubber standards committees, and on several journal editorial boards. She has more than 200 publications and about 23 patents or patents pending. In addition, she is CEO of four start-up companies, EnergyEne Inc., EnergyEne Australia Pty. Ltd, EnergyEne Africa, and DamSafe LLC.
Cornish received a bachelor of science degree (first-class honours) in biological sciences (1978) and a Ph.D. in Plant Biology (1982), both from the University of Birmingham, England.