This is the second of a two-part Oregonian package on the promise of biodiesel: By Scott Learn/The Oregonian Last year, four Canadian researchers said swapping canola-based biodiesel from Canada for ...

CROOKSTON -- The challenge: Get canola biodiesel from a local crush plant, fill a farm machine and go to work. This scenario is getting closer every day to becoming a reality, and a lot of people are ...

LANGDON, N.D. -- Here in the heart of America's top canola-producing county, enthusiasm for the crop is stronger than ever. "There's been interest in canola before, and it's had a lot of growth. But ...

Wean the country off fossil fuels. Stop global warming. Create jobs. All this, and turn fields ablaze with gorgeous yellow flowers. There’s a lot expected of a plant with a name so ugly that it was ...

SNOHOMISH — Snohomish County on Tuesday rolled out its first $12 million center to dry and store canola seed, steps needed before turning them into biodiesel. The project is expected to increase local ...

Eyeing the trucking industry, U.S. canola producers are seeking to expand their output since the Environmental Protection Agency recently OK’d the plant oil be included among acceptable biofuels in ...

Demand for biodiesel is causing a conflict with state restrictions in Oregon on canola seed production. Some Oregon farmers have said they would like to grow the crop for on-farm biodiesel production ...

Canola, a Canadian variant of rapeseed used primarily for salad oil, could produce 70 percent of Canada's biodiesel, a biofuels consultant said on Tuesday. "It would require about 45 percent of the ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, July 27 (Reuters) - Biodiesel made from canola oil would emit 50 percent less greenhouse gas than petroleum diesel fuel, which would make it eligible for the U.S. mandate to ...

LANGDON, N.D. -- Here in the heart of America's top canola-producing county, enthusiasm for the crop is stronger than ever. "There's been interest in canola before, and it's had a lot of growth. But ...

Kevin Waslaski, a Langdon, N.D., farmer, has been growing canola for two decades. Jeff Scott, a Pond Creek, Okla., farmer, began growing the winter variety of the crop eight years ago. Together, the ...