A western Minnesota farmer is growing winter camelina as a cash crop for the sustainable aviation fuels market.
Anne Schwagerl of Browns Valley tells Brownfield she’s selling the oilseed to a crush plant as part of a pilot project through the University of Minnesota.
“It needs fertility kind of like a small grain crop, but because it’s fall-seeded it gets up and out of the ground a lot earlier to outcompete weeds.”
She says sustainable aviation fuel can be part of the solution to climate change.
