Since 1958, the Boivin Family Farm of Addison, Vermont has been committed to producing only the finest quality products, whether it was bulk milk from our dairy herd or hay, seed
and grain from the field.



Fifty years after we first started our dairy farm in the fertile basin of Vermont's Champlain Valley, we are still leaders in innovative farming, with our newest venture, Vermont Golden Harvest BioFuels.  With our dairy herd days behind us, we've redirected our attention toward the production of our quality yield, field-grown products - and now offer soybean for pressing and cattle feed; the latest variety of organic and pesticide resistant canola (Vermont KAB-36); as well as our 10% - 12% moisture content shelled heating corn,as a cost effective fuel source!

Here's a little kernel 
of knowledge... 

...worthy of warming your 
interest to heating with corn...

Unlike our other forms of 
fossil fuel, corn is an 
annually renewable fuel, 
and that...

It takes approximately 40 million years to create fossil fuels (gas, coal, oil)...



It takes roughly 40 years for a tree to grow to maturity...


But, it only takes 4 MONTHS to grow corn.

Outdoor multi-fuel boiler heating systems can keep your home, barn, garage, shop - and even your greenhouse - toasty warm.  And, they're good for the environment, too!

As seen in the January 2012 issue of



"Greenhouses and high tunnels give vegetable farmers a jump on the growing season in the spring and protect against cold temperatures in the fall. In northern climates, extending the season significantly for warm-season crops comes at a cost: some kind of a heating system. The vast majority of such systems burn fossil fuels like heating oil or propane. However, in recent years, more and more farmers
have been experimenting with renewable fuels such as wood,
wood chips, used vegetable oil or shell corn."

  "In response, some growers have installed shell corn furnaces,
in part because there are nearby farms that produce that
fuel at a reasonable cost."




Vermont Golden Harvest BioFuel's Paul Boivin
seen giving a demonstration of a corn burning
outdoor boiler at Riverberry Farm in Fairfax, VT.

Heat Your Greenhouse With Corn!

Vermont Golden Harvest BioFuels provides bag and bulk
dried corn for automatic-feed, biomass heating systems for
greenhouses. These multi-fuel boilers and furnaces are
designed to contribute significantly in reducing
propane and fossil fuel consumption.

A typical 250,000-BTU-per-hour input system will cost $13,000 (installed) and can result in annual net fuel cost savings of $900 in a March-June greenhouse operation. The above savings assume fuel prices of $3.00 per gallon for propane, $250 per ton for wood pellets or $300 per ton for corn (at $6.00 per 40 lb bag).

A biomass heating system can also result in a net reduction of carbon emissions roughly equivalent to 5,000 miles of car travel. When considering the incentive provided by this program a payback period of seven years is possible. Payback periods at other prices is provided in the table below:



For additional information, or to schedule an
on-site meeting, please contact: Paul Boivin
at either 802-475-4007 - or - pboivin@gmavt.net

Of all the plant based forms of biomass fuel, corn is nature’s natural and most efficient solar energy collector. Corn stores the sun’s energy in little golden nuggets, and when burned, it releases that heat when you need it most - at night and throughout the winter. Corn is carbon neutral and more affordable than fossil fuels (which are finite, once the supply is gone - it’s gone)!  Unlike fossil fuels, corn is also annually renewable, as it's able to be grown (replenished) every year.

Harvested and dried to 10% -12% moisture content to - insure the most optimum heat output, our corn passed through a unique series of screening processes in order to reduce the dust & chaff commonly found with other biomass fuels.  

During packaging, as the kernels
fall into our bags, we run a final
vacuuming process to remove any remaining fine material, which
is great news to anyone who is
 allergic to airborne particulates.

For ease of use, our corn
comes in easy to manage
reusable 40lb. recycled bags.

Vermont Golden Harvest BioFuels
was featured in

Vermont Fences is the state's award winning quarterly magazine that's dedicated to the ever-changing production techniques and value-added products provided by many of the members of the Vermont Farm Bureau!

 



To quote Tim Buskey, 
"When conventional dairy farming began to look tenuous, Mark and Paul Boivin of No-Mon-Ne Farm in Addison, made a plan.  Their plan would use the resource at their fingertips to grow a renewable product and provide an energy future for their area and Vermont.  With the help of the Vermont Farm Viability Enhancement Program, they developed that business plan and went on to win a grant to sustain their new business venture."  

To check-out the article, simply tap on either the magazine cover, or the the mini article page shown above.

With over three quarters of a million alternative heating appliances already in US homes, it's obvious that concern over the recent fluctuations in oil futures has motivated a growing number to seek lower-cost alternative to fuels such as natural gas, propane, coal, and even wood.  Yet, contrary to the above mentioned fuels, only corn burns clean and efficiently, and does not release dangerous chemicals into the air. 

Corn-burning stoves, furnaces and boilers are easy to use and maintain.

Unlike a wood stove that requires babysitting after initial lighting, you do NOT have to keep an eye on a corn stove, furnace or boiler, as they can run unattended for at least 40 hours at low setting, and up to 24 hours on a higher setting.  


To anyone used to burning wood, that's a luxury!  

Unlike fossil fuels, corn burning does not add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, as it is "carbon neutral".  Did you know that nearly all types of fuel (coal, oil, propane or natural gas) that you currently burn to heat your home releases carbon dioxide (CO2), which is the most common greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming?

Bottom line:
Heating with renewable resources, such as corn, lessens our dependence on fossil fuels & foreign oil. In fact, heating an average home with corn can save enough nonrenewable fossil fuel to operate an automobile for an entire year! 

What's more, when you burn corn, it releases no more CO2
than the corn plant absorbed while it was still growing. 

Actually, a corn kernel releases LESS CO2 (carbon dioxide) than it absorbed during its entire growth period (from planting to harvest) - because much of it is still stored in the plant stalk and the roots in the ground. Compare that to burning fossil fuels, where all the stored-up CO2 is released - creating more global warming pollution.  Since most corn burning units use the oxidizing
method, the smoke is virtually odorless and is mainly a mix of carbon dioxide and steam. The resulting CO2 is reabsorbed by the corn plant during photosynthesis, resulting in oxygen being placed back into the air.

Heating with kernel corn is said to be 99% efficient. In other words, on average, roughly one pound of ash remains from burning 100 pounds of fuel-corn, and that's considerably less than the amount of ash usually left from an equivalent quantity of burned firewood.  

Another perk to using corn to heat, rather than wood, or even wood pellets is that there is no need to clean the chimney each year. In fact, you don't even need a conventional chimney. A corn stoves can be situated free standing - and without a hearth next to an outside wall. All that's really required is metal insulated dryer-type vent. 

What's it going to cost me...?
Unless you have handy access to your own woodlot, corn costs less to burn. A renewable resource, corn can be replaced in just four months’ time (depending on location and season). Compare that to 40 years replacement time for trees, and millions of years for oil, and you have one of America’s largest and least expensive resources. It takes just 2 bushels of corn to produce one million BTUs of heat, at an average cost of $11.53. Producing that much heat by burning wood, for example, costs on average, $17.34.  

For the most current cost savings comparisons, please click on the Heat Calculator at the bottom of the left column!

The heat from wood stoves can’t be easily as controlled as that from a corn stove, so there is some waste of heat. (Fireplaces are notoriously worse, as they might be nice to look at, but they actually suck the heat right out of a house & send it up the chimney!)  Newer model corn stoves are designed to feed the burn unit automatically - with the exact amount of fuel required to produce heat at a pre-set temperature. There’s no waste, and corn stoves
are much more efficient than wood stoves, so you get more heat!

At first glance, no one will even see that you are burning corn,
but - outside, when the wind is right, they'll know...
as they'll notice the faint but sweet perfume of cooking corn
in the air. This is in conspicuous contrast to the smoke
billowing from a neighbor’s chimney. 

 Vermont Golden Harvest BioFuels
corn is available in two convenient forms...

• in easy-carry and store 40-pound reusable
and recyclable storage bags

• and in cost-saving bulk form 

Locally available on-site, or delivered to your door... for FREE within Addison and Chittenden Counties in Vermont! 
Deliveries to outlying areas of Upstate New York
and Vermont are billed accordingly.
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For questions or to order your heating corn...
We can be reached via any of the following email,
fax or direct addresses: 
 
...and ask for either Paul or Mark.  
We look forward to helping you
with your corn heating needs! 




Sales: 5994 Goodrich Corner Road  Addison, Vermont 05491

Plant: 6286 Goodrich Corner Road  Addison, Vermont 05491

 Office: 802-475-4007  •  FAX: 802-475-2494
  
www.VTbiofuels@gmavt.net   •  pboivin@gmavt.net

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Thinking about an Outdoor Wood
Pellet & Corn Multi-Fuel Furnace?

Outdoor furnaces can heat 100% of
your hole and hot water.  By reducing
your heating cost, one of these units
can often pay for itself in the
first few years of use!

To see what your savings could mean
over a period of time, simply click on
the Energy Saving Calculators below.

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