Growing your own Biodiesel

[veggie]

Beautiful ! Looks like a post card 

What crops do you grow in rotation to the Canola ?
How many fields do you rotate?

veggie

[LowGear]

I agree.  Post magazine where are you?

Flower Power.

Casey

[fuelfarmer]

Thanks for the comments.

We grow corn, soybeans, barley, and some alfalfa hay. Don't know the number of fields, that is my brothers department, but we do have options to rotate.

Our farm is in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. 

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Thob..It looks to me as if your soil is in need of Boron and Sulphur....

[Thob]

Thob..It looks to me as if your soil is in need of Boron and Sulphur....

It could be - I don't know how to tell by looking, and I've been too cheap/too lazy to get a soil test done.  I do know that using a little compost goes a long way.  Where I had used compost and previously planted vegetables the canola grew just great.  Here's a photo when it's about 1/2 done with blooming and making seed pods (taken 4/5/2012):

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Hard to tell from a pic, but next season you should try a fertilizer with extra sulphur.
All plants of the cabbage family do need pretty much sulphur and boron