Researchers at SarTec of Anoka are experimenting with weed crops to determine whether 
farmers can profit by growing oil-rich seeds and processing them into biofuel.
ISANTI, MINN. – On the nagging question of whether growing crops to produce biofuel hurts the nation’s food supply, Clayton McNeff hopes to find a practical answer—in weeds.
McNeff, the co-inventor of technology used to refine biodiesel at the Ever Cat Fuels plant in Isanti, has been working for two years with a team of scientists and farmers to commercially grow two seed-bearing weeds as energy crops. Read more here…