sunflowers are 102 gallons / acre, rapeseed (canola) is 127 gallons. a difference, yes, but not enough to say sunflower stinks, canola is best.
castor beans is even better at 151. only grows well in tropical and subtropical climates. it's been grown in England, but only produces beans once every 10 years. Keith, could you add a "ideal climate" column to your yield page? the indicated gallons / acre may be one range in one climate, but more or less in another. interesting thing about castor ..... http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_738404.html?menu= Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter & Discussion Boards. Read about Sustainable Technology: http://www.green-trust.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darald Bantel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Blue Sun Biodiesel was Re: double cropping > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 11:24, Neoteric Biofuels Inc wrote: > > 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 > > Oil production per acre of sunflowers stinks!!! > > Perhaps the production of vegetable oils should remain in the cooler > states (the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho and the like (and of course > Canada!!!! where canola was perfected (grin!))) and you can get > production rates of a 1000 liters per acre (yes that is stated using > mixed units but that was how I saw it presented!) or about 275 us gal > per acre. There may be other alternative crops as I did not remember the > front runners on oil production per acre just that canola (rapeseed) was > about third or fourth and that can be grown readily in my area so that's > what I filed in the memory. > > Darald > > > > 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/
