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.
The world’s demand for food and food-based products is set to double – if not triple – by 2050 and farmers must speak up for their right to meet that demand using conventional farming methods combined with new technologies.
If they don’t, a US researcher told delegates at the Beef Industry Convention in London ON recently, [...]
One of the criticisms often lobbed at the ethanol industry is that using corn for fuel means there is less available for food. But a new research investment by the government of Canada aims to change that.
We may soon no longer be the only big consumers of coffee.
Researchers in Nevada have found that used coffee grounds can be turned into a source of cheap, environmentally friendly fuel for cars and trucks.
Now that America has it’s new President-elect in Senator Barack Obama, what does that mean for farmers? That’s a big question not only for farmers on either side of the Canada – US border, but also around the world.
Although I did follow the US election fairly regularly, I didn’t pay as much attention to [...]
Do we care if our meat is made in Canada?
It soon won’t matter, says a report by a Guelph-based agricultural think tank, because there may not be any.
The following article was printed in the Waterloo Region Record on September 30 2008.
Farmers aren’t to blame for rising food prices
By Lilian Schaer
The global food crisis is starting to hit home. Even here in Ontario where a strong farming sector produces an abundance of top quality food and exports much of it to other countries, [...]
