An Albany-based developer of alternative fuels will be planting oil-rich pennycress at three sites in New York, this fall. Soybean, a popular biodiesel crop, is 18% oil; the seed of pennycress is 36% oil. Other benefits of developing pennycress as a biodiesel crop is that it grows over the winter, and that is is often a weed in soy fields and so can enable farmers to produce fuel in the winter and food in the summer from soybeans.
[Sources: Times Union, Biofuels Journal]
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