Friday, February 27, 2009

Camelina - An Oil-Seed Crop For Different Bio-fuels

As seeding time is quickly approaching, producers will be planning which crops to plant. One crop some producers may want to consider is camelina. Dan Kusalik with the Great Plains Camelina Company says camelina is used for a number of different bio-fuels. "Camelina is an oil-seed crop that we use for bio-fuel, bio-diesel jet fuel production."Camelina can be planted in the winter, too. As long as the soil conditions allow us to take that drill and put the seed a quarter inch into the ground we could do it. Right now they're just under the 25,000 acre mark on the prairies.

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