The machine trims grass using a low-power electrical bar cutter and collects the grass snippets, which are funnelled into a hot and pressurised area where they are turned into dry grass pellets.

Jerry Cherney, the E.V. Baker Professor of Agriculture at Cornell University, says that burning grass pellets for fuel is economical, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly and easy to produce.

A project to use unused farmland as a source for fuel pellets could have a $500 million impact.

SCOTT TWP. – It churns, it burns and it could save homeowners thousands in home heating costs. Some regional agronomists have devised a way to press grass into pellets. They hope to jump star… ...