bio-fuel and -feed farming

In Southwest Oregon, Josephine County has given its Soil and Water Conservation Service $85K for small farm canola crop planting. Described as useful for marginal soils without irrigation (a spring crop, I guess?) this is being supported also by a Eugene-based Northwest Seed Crushers Company who will actually contract to farm your little 5- or 10-acre field, if not contract for your seed crop to crush for oil. My colleague solidspin who is actually into the biodiesel industry deeper than you can imagine, says yes but soybeans are what I need for biodiesel. Stay tuned, folks. For optimum fuel-oil soybeans, but canola yields oil and also feedstock-grade meal.

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One local farmer jumped right in and is doing 80 or so acres and is considering his other few hundred acres.