Sunflowers ?

[Ninurta]

Any idea how much oil you could produce per acre of sunflowers?

Explanation: Google sayeth ...

Oil yield extracted from the sunflower seed ranges from 35 to 80 gallons per acre.

Personal Disclosure: For more in depth analysis ...

https://farming.org.ua/Sunflower%20yield...ctare.html

I hope that helps!  

It does, thanks. 
Not a bad haul.

But then again, how many acres does the average urbanite have to lease to this company that's fleecing them?

The average suburban lot is 1/8 acre. Most of that is occupied by a house, further reducing the available space for growing sunflowers. At the maximum yield listed, sunflowers can produce 80 gallons of oil per acre. cutting that to 1/8 acre in conformity with the average home lot, and assuming the homeowner is willing to bulldoze his house in favor of getting rich on sunflower oil, he can expect a yield of 10 gallons, maximum. How much is sunflower oil going for on the current market, per gallon? But wait - the homeowner doesn't get that whole amount in this scheme. He gets a check for using his land from the sunflower oil company ("Agrinet Theory LLC"), THEY get the bulk of the money from the sunflower oil, not the homeowner they are leasing land from. They are simply another Big Agriculture wannabe outfit trying to compete with other Big Agriculture outfits by using YOUR land, in combination with a lot of other folks' land to make up the land volume for their operation, to make THEIR bones.

I expect that Agrinet Theory LLC, will eventually go the way that National Hemp went here - National Hemp had a grand scheme to get our farmers to grow hemp, pay them a pittance for their crop (while the farmer was taking all the risk of growing it and potentially having the Feds destroy his entire crop for the year if it tested just a little too high in THC content), and then make bank on CBD oil from that crop. Wouldn't be the first time outsiders have come in here and tried to bend us over the fence rail without lube. We're starting to get kinda wise to that shit, no one took the bait, and National Hemp folded up shop and moved on to greener pastures. Any hemp grown in these hills is likely to be for personal use, so that the producer gets 100% of the benefit of it rather than 3% maximum of it's monetary value.

Sunflowers are native to America. They were a component of the "Eastern Agricultural Complex" developed during the Early Woodland period by eastern US Indians, which was one of only 7 or so independently developed agricultural complexes around the world. How dare those Slavs culturally appropriate Native American resources like that, all for filthy lucre? I am offended. Deeply offended. Quick - someone get me the key to my safe space!

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