[Syrupmakers] Sorgahol

[Richard Harrison]

Danny,
      I don't have specifics, but in general I think that I can tell you that it is not cost effective for small scale--at all. A man in Jacksonville, FL wanted to buy cane juice from me for about 10-15 cents per gallon last year. The cost of juice production is about 50 cents..so you do the math, as they say. I advised the man to grow his own sugarcane(!). 
      I do know that sorghum produces something like half as much syrup(sugar) per acre as sugarcane. So, I can't see how you could recover your costs, frankly.  However, if you machine harvested with something like a silage chopper and had a large enough mill.....
      We have a member of our Southern Syrupmakers Association who did a little distillation this season for fun and experimentation. But he hasn't reported his findings to us. (Maybe he found food-grade ethanol instead ! It is more cost effective, that way).
                                 Richard Harrison

G Wilson <glenarchie at webtv.net> wrote:
    Danny

      Look up sorhum ethanol on google

TC Willson
  
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  From: DCNIBLETT at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2008 10:31 PM
To: syrupmakers at syrupmakers.net
Subject: [Syrupmakers] Sorgahol

      Does anyone have info on making ethanol from Sorghum on a small scale basis? All help would be greatly appreciated.
   
  Thanks.
   
  Danny Niblett
  Virginia



    
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