b"The contract removes a lot of the risk when growing a new crop.The contract also gives producers a locked in price for a certain amount of their production so that they can make sure that they're going to cover their input costs, and all those good things as well as have the opportunity to capture upside if there is an upside in the market, continues Greenfield.The Yield10 marketing contracts arent the only ones available to producers.We have letters of intent with companies like Mitsubishi, Marathon, and American Airlines. Yield10 is also working on developing the market and creating that pathway for camelina to go to the biofuel market while making sure that we grow the demand. For camelina, the demand is already there, adds Greenfield.As camelina continues to gain popularity, the crop is rising in demand.There are several companies contracting camelina including Canary BioFuels Inc. in Lethbridge, adds Mercer.There are companies with contracts in various parts of Canada and the United States, with Eynck adding Smart Earth offers contracts in Saskatchewan, amongst other companies.Currently, most of the camelina acres are grown under contract with guaranteed offtake, Eynck continues. I do think that companies have learned a lesson from when companies overpromised on the crop and then didn't actually take the grain. Farmers still remember that. It appears that companies are very aware of that and are more cautious.Seed grower Ryan Mercer standing in a camelina field Rebecca Carmeli-Peslak98seed.ab.ca"