a small swath of a large-ish planting of high-oil sunflowers suitable for use in the production of biodiesel. the field is owned by cropp ( organic valley ) which happens to own organic logistics which hauls organic products on trucks that run on, you guessed it, biodiesel.

this is an experimental crop to help quantify biodiesel yields from this particular high-oil variety of sunflowers.

update – sources in the know have told me that cropp ( organic valley ) planted 27,000 flowers per acre over 14 acres or 374,000 sunflowers! as indicated it’s a high-oil "industrial" variety which is certified organic.