About Biofuel

Farm Fuel Inc. currently grows mustard seed in Monterey, San Mateo, and Santa Cruz counties on the central coast of California. Once the mustard is grown to seed, it is harvested and crushed. The crushing process extracts the oil of the seed, which is processed into biofuel. This biofuel is used at local biodiesel stations.

Farm Fuel Inc.'s participating farmers have planted over 100 acres of the two mustard varieties on fallow ground to test the local production of these cultivars of mustard, and to test the properties of a mustard seed rotation. It is possible to produce approximately 5,000 to 10,000 gallons of biodiesel along with 50-100 tons of mustard seed meal. Over the longer term it should be possible to produce millions of gallons of mustard-oil biodiesel and hundreds of thousands of tons of mustard meal soil amendments in California organically and sustainably. All this as part of an integrated system where the mustard provides a variety of valuable inputs into a sustainable farming system.

Biodiesel is distributed locally for the Santa Cruz County market. Farm Fuel Inc. encourages farmers to grow their own mustard seed for fuel. Please contact us for more information.