Legumes are, but castor beans are not true beans and are not nitrogen fixers. They could also be looking at something like sunflowers and vetch, intercropped. Hairy vetch is a nitrogen fixer and cover crop, and has been intercropped with sunflowers.
Edward Beggs On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 09:25 AM, James Slayden wrote: > Someone please correct me, but aren't a legumes nitrogen fixing? Maybe > they are doing something with that. I'm sure their not going to "give > up > the farm" and tell us what crop they are planning to grow, since it IS > a > part of their business stragety. But looking at the oilseed chart on > JTF > castorbeens come to mind. > > James Slayden > > On 11 Mar 2003, Darald Bantel wrote: > >> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 02:43, girl_mark_fire wrote: >>> Blue Sun Biodiesel, who is a very ambitious biodiesel producer >>> gearing up to build a huge plant in Colorado, is banking on local >>> farmers' doublecropping as one of their strategies. I think the >>> locals grow winter wheat. Growing an oilcrop for Blue Sun before the >>> wheat season gives them the benefits you describe below. I think the >>> crop is mustard- I could be wrong though, it was a casual >>> conversation and I don't have the info in print anywhere. I also >>> think they said it was a nitrogenfixer- I don't remember if mustard >>> does that or not- but it sounded like a win-win situation for the >>> local farmers on the Plains there- part of the idea is also that >>> they'll be growing a crop with a guaranteed purchaser, not subject to >>> market fluctuations in chicago or somehere. And they'll still be >>> growing wheat. >>> mark >>> >> Greetings >> >> I would not think that it would be a form of mustard as there are (to >> date) no nitrogen fixing varieties of mustard and to do the >> bioengineering would mean that that this would be a genetically >> engineered crop - ergo - very very difficult to sell in today's >> markets!! >> >> Darald >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Sponsor >> ADVERTISEMENT >> >> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >> http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >> >> Biofuels list archives: >> http://archive.nnytech.net/ >> >> Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. >> To unsubscribe, send an email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. >> > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
