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What is the best crop to grow specifically for vegetable oil, looking for yield per acre? Soybeans, sunflowers, peanuts,...?
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Asking a super-small subset (farmers +)
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...off the top of my head, I can help you analyze it though. It would first depend on what area you are interested in, what grows there the best (cheapest, what needs for water, etc, etc), what production costs are there in that area, what seed/oil pressing costs locally if you need to sub contract that out, etc. It really varies, like some places in the tropics it is better to use palm oil. Way up in Canuckistan I would guess it would be canola/rapeseed. I think most biodiesel in the US though is currently
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I'm in the Pac. NW, sandy soil, all the horse poo I could ever use (courtesy of wife's 2 minis), will be pressing my own, looking for yield density in terms of gal/acre.
All assistance appreciated...
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This should get you started. One of the things to think about is what do with your left over feedstock after it is pressed. According to this report (PDF), yellow mustard has good yield and perhaps could be grown where you are (I grow mustard, easy as all get out to grow it), but the leftover stuff isn't useful to feed critters with (apparently some chemical gets too concentrated, although the salad mustard we grow is fine as a salad mix...I guess..). They say you can get good yields from canola, but you'll
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First, what Zogger said above: it depends. Oil palm has the best yield per acre I have heard about, by far, but it ain't gonna grow in the PNW. Canola/rapeseed is probably best suited to the climate, but (at least in the mid-Willamette valley) it is strongly discouraged as a crop because it interacts badly with the commercial vegetable brassicas such as broccoli, cabbage, etc. Pest problems IIRC. If my source [typepad.com] is correct, canola yields after pressing about 800 lb oil plus 1200 lb seedcake per acre.
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