06/14/06 A biodiesel workshop

Washington Ag June 6, 2006 A workshop titled "Biodiesel, from field to fuel" is being held this Thursday, June 15th at the Coeur d'Alene Resort by leading biofuels researchers from the University of Idaho. VAN GERPIN "But it's really targeted primarily at those people who have already made the decision that they want to get into biodiesel in some way whether its growing the feedstock or processing it or actually operating a biodiesel plant." 14 That's the U of I's Jon Van Gerpin who is one of the experts who will be talking about growing oilseeds in the Northwest, processing oilseeds, biodiesel production and economics and co-products that are part of the process. VAN GERPIN "The real obstacle right now is going to be can we grow enough oilseeds to meet the demand. It limits the amount of biodiesel that we can produce but it may put farmers in a very good position because there's going to be a lot of demand for oilseed crops." 16 In addition to Van Gerpin, Charles Peterson and Dev Shrestha will lead the one-day workshop. Area farmers, state governmental agencies from Idaho and Washington, biodiesel production plant developers and various grain growers associations are among the registrants who will learn more about biodiesel production. Workshop schedule and registration may be found by following the links at: www.uidaho.edu/bioenergy/. I'm Bob Hoff.