Originally Posted by 94F250_weekender
I find this very interesting in todays times of limited marketing on alternate fuels and salute you guys for busting out of the shackels the government keeps us in.
Question is, have any of you grown canola and processed it to oil? I have read of yields of about 5 lbs an acre. How much oil will 5 lbs of seed produce? I am wondering about the amount of land we need to produce a sufficient produce and considering rotation to run the farm. Thanks for your interest.
Your figures are way off. We grow cannola here in the Northwest, Non-irrigated yealds average 2,000 lbs/acre. Irrigated will produce between 4-6,000lbs/acre.
40 percent of each lb/seed=oil. I planted 20 irrigated acres this spring that should yeald 60,000lbs of seed, with 40 percent oil I should get 24,000 lbs of oil. At an average of 6 lbs/gal oil that should be aprox 4,000 gallons of oil.
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