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 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/
