Who would of thought that a weed the we spray to get rid of could wind up as a biodiesel crop!

Making Pennycress Pay Off - Biodiesel Magazine

 

Wonder if Russian Thistle could ever be used???

 

Thanks for the article. As I'm new to this forum I was wondering if there was anything in the archives which discusses the oil yield/acre of various crops? Thanks, looking forward to learning a lot here.

 

Welcome to the biodiesel forum. I did a quick search and didn't find much.

You can find a nice chart here: Vegetable oil yields, characteristics: Journey to Forever

I don't like to quote that site much, to much misinformation....................

But the yield chart is pretty close. Where I live we raise canola. Local yields of 4,000lb + /acre are common here. A 100 acre pivot will generate about 20,000 GALLONS of B-100 per year.

 

Thanks, that's a good start. That seems like a pretty good return with the canola. Does it go by a different name, I didn't see it on the chart. I was thinking about flax. I guess a lot depends on where you are, soil conditions, weather, growing season, etc.

 

Canola is rapeseed.
Understand why no one uses that name anymore?

 

"Understand why no one uses that name anymore? "

Because most Americans are illiterate.