Oil Seed Crops

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Oil Seed Crops
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Oil Seed Crops 5 Major

• Soybeans
• Peanuts
• Safflower
• Flax
• Sunflower

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Soybeans

• Grown in the Corn Belt
• Internationally grown in Brazil
• Oil and grains are the major uses
• Oil Many Products
• Grain. Important PROTEIN source for animal feed.

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Peanuts

• Peanut is a legume (in the pea family, not a
  nut.)
• Grown in the South (needs warm temp.)
• George Washington Carver found 300 uses for
  peanuts.

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Safflower
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Flax

• Flax fiber from the stems of plants are used to
  make linen.
• The oil from flax is called LINSEED Oil
• Oil is important in paints and hundreds of uses.

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Sunflowers

• Sunflower Meal livestock feed.
• Sunflower Oil
• Margarine and cooking oil
• Diesel fuel in tractors

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Specialty Crops

• Cotton
• Sugar beets
• Sugar Cane
• Tobacco

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Cotton

• Important southern crop (needs warm temperatures)
• We export millions of bales to other countries
• Ginning is the process of removing the seed,
  which contains the oil
• The seed is then ground up for livestock feed.

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Sugar Beets

• 35 of refined sugar in U.S. comes from sugar
  beets

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Sugar Cane

• 65 of refined sugar
• Grown in subtropical climates, Hawaii, Florida,
  Gulf States

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Tobacco

• Originally Native American religious rites
• Produced in the southeast
• Has declined in the U.S. because of known health
  hazards, but has increased worldwide.