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For years, farmers treated this plant like an enemy.
They sprayed it, pulled it, and tried to erase it from their fields.

Now the story has flipped.

Field pennycress — a winter “weed” — is being redesigned and marketed as a crop.
The goal is bigger than cooking oil.
It’s fuel, including the kind that could help power airplanes.

So what changed?

In this short documentary, we follow the real chain of events:
how a weed became a winter cash crop idea, why oil suddenly mattered more than ever, and how money and policy turned “kill on sight” into “please plant it.”

This is not just a story about a plant.
It’s a story about incentives — and who gets to control the next version of American farmland.

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Chapters
00:00 The weed that might power jets
01:10 What pennycress is (and why farmers hated it)
02:40 The early clue: why researchers took it seriously
04:10 The real obstacles: seed, shatter, and chemistry
05:45 The redesign: turning a weed into a crop
07:20 The supply chain: why big partners stepped in
09:10 The uncomfortable question: who wins?
10:40 What happens if it succeeds — or fails
11:30 The bigger meaning

Question for you:
If winter fields could earn money and protect soil, would you plant a “weed” on purpose?

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