I feel the need to get something off my chest this morning.
It seems to be popular in the urban media at the moment to bash farmers, especially those who grow corn and soybeans. These horrible people – or so the theme goes – are ruining the environment by growing large volumes of these crops [...]

A gas station in Ottawa is the first in the world to sell fuel made with wheat straw, says a major petroleum company.
Shell announced that this blended fuel includes 10% biofuel made from wheat stalks – known as cellulosic ethanol.

Corn uses too much water and too much fertilizer to produce, its critics often charge, making it a bad environmental choice.
Yet millions of people around the world depend on corn as a staple of life -  as food for themselves, as feed for their livestock and as a renewable fuel alternative. And that demand is [...]