Producer Meeting For Alternative Cropping
Alternative Oil Crop & Biodiesel Production
January 23, 2004
Blue Sun Producers and Blue Sun Biodiesel are hosting an informational meeting at 9:00 a.m. on Friday January 30th, 2004 at the Kiowa County Fairgrounds in Eads.
There are 5.6 million acres of dryland winter wheat in the Central High Plains region. With the addition of oilseed crops into the rotation, area farmers could generate an additional $280 million in revenue per year. Blue Sun Biodiesel is currently recruiting growers for commercial cultivation of biodiesel oilseed crops on up to 60,000 acres for the spring of 2004.
Blue Sun provides the opportunity to bring together area farmers to help foster economic development and opportunities for the area. Blue Sun is looking for area farmers to grow oil seed crops in a cooperative-based business venture. This is a prospect for another valuable crop for our area producers and the potential for a biodiesel plant to be built in our area creating jobs and enhancing the tax base.
Blue Sun is working to produce a high-grade biodiesel fuel through the development and production of new oilseed crops for irrigated and dryland agriculture on the High Plains of Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska. Blue Sun's biodiesel production facility is in development and will supply Blue Sun's distribution network, using preferred relationships with the region's fuel distributors and biodiesel customers.
Biodiesel is created by adding plant-based oil to diesel fuel to make a blend that is burned instead of straight diesel fuel in trucks and farm equipment. The process also yields a high quality feed by-product that is fed to livestock.
Blue Sun is committed to improving our community, our environment and contributing to our national security by reducing dependence upon foreign oil. Blue Sun's goal is to produce high-quality biodiesel in the most energy efficient and environmentally responsible manner. In doing so, Blue Sun will further the use of biodiesel to improve local, regional and national air quality, all while supporting U.S. agriculture and strengthening the regional and national economy.
It is a product that is environmentally friendly, extends engine life, reduces our dependency on foreign oil and gives farmers another market for oil seed crops.
You have the opportunity to attend this meeting and learn more about this new alternative crop. It is bred to grow in the high plains of the western US and will produce the highest quality biodiesel available in the US. You will also learn about the positive benefits from using biodiesel in today’s modern diesel engines. Biodiesel is one of the few alternative fuels that require no modification to engines, storage or supply infrastructure. Blue Sun Biodiesel is one of the most exciting energy products to come along in years.
For more information, please contact Sean Lafferty at Blue Sun Biodiesel at 970-221-0500 or Angie Devlin at 303-378-1765.