Stinkweed in your fuel tank? Maybe some day

ALBANY, N.Y. – The request caught dairy farmer Brian Ziehm off guard: Would he devote an acre of his fields near the Vermont line this fall to grow stinkweed?

“It was like, ‘What the heck? I’ve been trying to get rid of these things for 30 years. Now you want me to plant them?’”

But Ziehm happily agreed to grow the hardy weed called field pennycress