[thackney]

Corn is not produced from the oil in corn but rather the starch. You’re comparing apples and oranges.

[thackney]

Corn Ethanol is not produced from the oil in corn...

[NVDave]

Right, but if we use oilseeds as a biodiesel feedstock (and diesel engines) we have better efficiency in both the production and the use.

[azhenfud]

Corn and all of its starch content produces about 2.5 gallons of fuel stock per bushel and the corn is pretty well useless from that point on as a motor fuel. Mustard, in oil production alone, produces 40% of its weight in oil, plus the hulk byproduct, which by far already outproduced the corn stock on an acre by acre average, is still available for fermentation and distillation into ethanol. Other words, even should it take 10 bushels of mustard hulk to extract the 2 1/2 gallons of ethanol of one bushel of corn, the mustard will have already produced more expressed oil than the corn can produce in ethanol through the F&D process.

Mustard seed can produce almost as much as twice the oil from each bushel as corn can produce in ethanol. With that, we’ve already exceeded the corn’s fuel yield and not yet distilled the first drop of ethanol from mustard hulk.

Mustard can also be “no-tilled” and straight combined so crop production and equipment requirements closely matches that of corn requiring little switchover for the producer.

Even better, abt 2/3 of the world’s mustard seed stock comes from our friends and neighbors from our north, Canada. We need to eliminate the Arab noose on America’s necks and our Canadian friends can help.

We need to quit trying to get those apples to produce orange juice.

I believe the mustard seed - just as Jesus said, “is less than all the seeds that be in the earth” - offers more promise than we’re crediting it.