Local Bio-Diesel Plant

[roosterdiesel]

Well a few days ago in the local paper, news came out that a sugar beet plant in Hereford,TX is going to be converted to Bio_Diesel plant.

They plan on using soy bean oil trucked in to begin with. Local farmers are being asked to grow soybeans for them so they don't have to truck it in and can make their own oil. New raw product since there won't be enough reclaimed oil to sustain their suspected 20-30 million gallon production.

We are going to start to grow beans for them!

http://amarillonet.com/stories/022406/bus_4050916.shtml

There's the article, you have to create an account but it's free.

 

[hheynow]

That's what I like to hear.

 

[powerboatr]

do we need to do a group buy on land to get teh soybeans up and growing.
I am in

 

[roosterdiesel]

do we need to do a group buy on land to get teh soybeans up and growing.
I am in

I don't think land is going to be the problem. I'm going to talk to all my family's farming "buddies." The problem will be affording the natural gas bills for water. Or the conversion of irrigation engines to run on Bio from the plant.

I'm really looking into this hard. Emailed the news paper for contact info on the company. We've already disastered two fields of wheat! It's cotton or beans, trying to do some research and get some production numbers from friends. Then I've got to find our optimum point of production and weigh our opportunity costs. Good old production functions.

-popcorn -popcorn

 

[W4RLR]

Why does "Beans, beans, the musical fruit...the more you eat, the more you...." come to my mind about this? Just what we need, flatulent trucks, giving a whole new meaning to the words "turbo fart"!