we are due to export 1 billion bushels of soybeans to china and brazil. with the shortfall of available bio d what would the correct conversion number be?

jtf has the yield per hectare but i have a hard time with fractions and mmin wrench sizes w/o thinking of land mass.

some help please.

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Are you sure there's a biodiesel shortfall? Our local retailer claims that most of the production from a plant in Houston is exported to Europe.

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I'm not sure exactly what number you are going after, but let me give it a try.

1 billion bushels to China.
A bushel of soybeans is about 60 pounds
Soybeans are about 18% oil by weight
Soybean biodiesel weighs about 7.35 pounds per gallon

Hence, a bushel of soybeans yields about 1.46 gallons of biodiesel, and a billion bushels yields about 1.469 billion gallons of biodiesel.

Oil is a byproduct of soybean meal production (which is generally considered the valuable part of the soybean). We used to make the meal in the US, and then ship China the meal, but they are industrialized enough to buy the whole bean for processing in China. That means they pay us less, and take both the oil and the meal, for separating in China. We get less money, and give more product. Its like we are shipping China layers of topsoil in the form of beans.

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I found the figure of 48 gallons soy oil per acre.

http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html

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http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b1...oD/bioclip.jpg

And I'll bet that figure varies quite a bit due to soil and climate conditions............

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Today's SUPER-SOY hybrids and mega-doping fertilizers have very little variability in yield. However, numbers between 48-55 gallons per acre are good averages. Our country's soy production is so high that it is watched very closely.

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I think the yield of Biodiesel from virgin vegi oil is like 80-85% I doubt it will be much higher

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This is assuming one gallon of oil yields one gallon of biodiesel, which it does not. The actual yield of biodiesel is going to be less than the 1.46 gallons.

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