Camelina
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Camelina is an annual plant with prolific small, pale- yellow flowers with four petals, attains heights of 1 to 3 feet and has branched stems that become woody at maturity. Leaves are arrow-shaped, sharp-pointed and about 3 inches long with smooth edges. Seed pods are the size and shape of a small pea. The seeds are very small, amounting to about 400,000 seeds per pound, and they are 40 percent oil, compared to 20 percent with soybeans.

camelina co-product utilization

Sustainable Oils is the leader in providing camelina oil for bio-fuel with contracts for delivery of fuel to both the US Air Force and Navy. Production of oil from camelina grain results in several co-products. About 60 percent of the weight of camelina grain is meal. We are conducting research to define the co-products, refine the processes for co-product development and enhance the sustainablility and value of the co-products.

Sustainable Oils has led efforts to verify the safety of camelina meal as an animal feed ingredient and submitted the first studies to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration that allowed the agency to recommend the use of camelina meal as a feed ingredient in broiler chickens and feed lot cattle.

Analyzing results of yield and oil composition testing
Analyzing results of yield and oil composition testing

 

 

 

 

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