Vermeer Corporation recently received a nearly $6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. Vermeer says the Department is investing in them to help reduce costs associated with harvesting, handling and preprocessing biomass feedstocks. The grant monies will focus on getting high impact, high quality feedstocks, such as corn stover and switchgrass, from field to biorefinery more efficiently and effectively. It will create more advanced harvesting and collection equipment in the field, and improve biomass handling and processing equipment for biorefineries.