GILLETTE, Wyo. -- The Wyoming Business Council Agribusiness Division will use new grant money to help buy a demonstration mobile crushing processor that extracts oil from biofuel crops such as camelina.
The Business Council announced recently that it had received the nearly $50,000 grant from the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program.
The three-year grant will help fund test plots of oilfuel seed stock crops in Wyoming for plants such as canola, camelina and sunflowers. The plants can be processed into biodiesel or byproducts like livestock feed or lubricants.
Don Randall of the Business Council says the processor will be taken around the state as a demonstration for potential seed producers.
The University of Wyoming Campbell County Extension Office is also participating in the demo project.
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