Fuel from Canola? Palm Oil? Biofuels are obviously going to be a large part of our future, although probably more as a transitional phase to even more sustainable methods.
When you consider the yeild of dryland (non irrigated) canola at approx 1.5 ton per acre with varying quality and a 40% to 50 % oil yeild per ton then it is going to take lots of acres to make significant quantities of biodiesel.
This is very good for the farmers for demand and price, so no doubt Canaola is going to be a good cash crop in the coming years. Appararently it is up to $800.00 per ton in europe.
Any crop that produces oil takes a lot of nutrients and minerals out of the ground. Unless good soil science is applied, yeilds and quality will drop dramaticaly very quickly, and this will affect the sustainability of the industry.
By the way,.. good quality seed is milled much faster with better yeild, this benefits the miller as well.
My business is sustainable agriculture using mineral soil technology to help produce high yeild, quality crops of all kinds. Our fertilizers make the crop more stress tolerent eg. more drought and disease resistant. We have been researching and developing products for this since about the mid 1960s.
In those days many of our peers (and the government) thought we were nuts refusing to use DDT and the Organochlorines, Organophosphates, etc. Today of course it is a different story, but the point is that we were decades in front of the industry and still are in many respects. We have many decades of experience in sustainable farming producing top quality commercial crops when the industry is only realizing that there is a desperate need for it...world wide!!
We do this with knowledge by incorporating huge numbers of minerals into our fertilizers. We also custom make the fertilizer for each individual farm in accordance to a good soil analysis and balance the farm soil at very competitive prices.
If we can improve the yield and quality by 25 to 50 percent then the farmer survives (well) for another year, and lets face it Australian farmers need all the help they can get.
If the farmer does not achieve the good yeild, grain supply will be restricted, prices will increase and the industry will flounder, losing its competitive edge and ability to supply bodiesel on demand.
If you are considering the business end of biodiesel from canola or palm etc, and are linked to the farmer then we will be happy to help with any questions.
Good soils make good oils!!
When you consider the yeild of dryland (non irrigated) canola at approx 1.5 ton per acre with varying quality and a 40% to 50 % oil yeild per ton then it is going to take lots of acres to make significant quantities of biodiesel.
This is very good for the farmers for demand and price, so no doubt Canaola is going to be a good cash crop in the coming years. Appararently it is up to $800.00 per ton in europe.
Any crop that produces oil takes a lot of nutrients and minerals out of the ground. Unless good soil science is applied, yeilds and quality will drop dramaticaly very quickly, and this will affect the sustainability of the industry.
By the way,.. good quality seed is milled much faster with better yeild, this benefits the miller as well.
My business is sustainable agriculture using mineral soil technology to help produce high yeild, quality crops of all kinds. Our fertilizers make the crop more stress tolerent eg. more drought and disease resistant. We have been researching and developing products for this since about the mid 1960s.
In those days many of our peers (and the government) thought we were nuts refusing to use DDT and the Organochlorines, Organophosphates, etc. Today of course it is a different story, but the point is that we were decades in front of the industry and still are in many respects. We have many decades of experience in sustainable farming producing top quality commercial crops when the industry is only realizing that there is a desperate need for it...world wide!!
We do this with knowledge by incorporating huge numbers of minerals into our fertilizers. We also custom make the fertilizer for each individual farm in accordance to a good soil analysis and balance the farm soil at very competitive prices.
If we can improve the yield and quality by 25 to 50 percent then the farmer survives (well) for another year, and lets face it Australian farmers need all the help they can get.
If the farmer does not achieve the good yeild, grain supply will be restricted, prices will increase and the industry will flounder, losing its competitive edge and ability to supply bodiesel on demand.
If you are considering the business end of biodiesel from canola or palm etc, and are linked to the farmer then we will be happy to help with any questions.
Good soils make good oils!!
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