Some of the state’s biggest companies are working to turn a cover crop into renewable fuel for utilities, vehicles and ...

GOODLAND, Kan. (KSNW) — The company that owns the old sunflower crush plant near Goodland is closer to reopening it as a new soy and canola oilseed crush facility. On Monday, Scoular announced ...

As designated by the USDA, the term oilseed refers to the oil-rich seed of a plant - for example, a soybean or a rapeseed. Seed oil refers to the oil extracted from an oilseed. While oilseed and ...

The plant, to be built by Infinifuel (cool name ... able to produce five million gallons of biodiesel a year, made from oilseed and/or algae (Infinifuel is in discussions with the University ...

Scientists are harnessing genetic modification to transform oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) into a crop resilient against the mounting pressures of climate change.

Oil seed engineering has long been a difficult field, Durrett said. Throughout the plant kingdom, there have been various unusual but useful lipids that biochemists have been successful at finding ...

Happy New Year, fellow OCJ reader! I’m just back from a short visit to Brazil, where I witnessed the development of an ...

Researchers for the Organic Science Cluster of the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada are studying the organic cultivation of oilseed pumpkins -- the best varieties, weed management and fertility ...

Three workers have been injured in an explosion at an oilseed processing plant. Witnesses reported hearing a "huge" blast at the factory in Church Manorway, Erith, south-east London, at about 9:00 ...