Fmiser wrote: > If you contract out the land, pick something other than soy!! > > Peanuts, rape, cotton, palm, etc all make better base stock than > soy.
But...but...the government subsidizes soy biodiesel, and they wouldn't do that if it wasn't the best use of resources, would they? <g> Seriously, I believe yield per acre is under 40bu, and I recently saw an ad for a two stage heated press that claimed to extract over 1.1 gallon per bushel, so soy oil yield is going to be somewhere below 50 gallons per acre, and we all know that soy oil is not the preferred feed stock. The fun part of renting the land out on shares is going to be finding somebody who wants to farm the oilseed that you want, and finding a way to get the oil out of the seed if you want to make biodiesel with your 1/4th of the crop. In theory, you could do it with 100 acres and a $10k investment in your own oil press if you want to go with soy, which should be easy to find a farmer to partner with. Or you could just buy the press, and 1,000 bu of beans, and sell the leftover high protein soy meal for about what you paid for the beans. Mitch. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
