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Sure, that’s sports news, but what also makes this feed, fuel and farm news is that these race cars were powered by an experimental biofuel made from Eastern Ontario wheat straw. Continue reading Farmers fuel Formula One 
Shell announced that this blended fuel includes 10% biofuel made from wheat stalks – known as cellulosic ethanol. Continue reading Fuel from wheat straw at the pumps in Ottawa
Researchers in Nevada have found that used coffee grounds can be turned into a source of cheap, environmentally friendly fuel for cars and trucks. Continue reading Coffee for cars? 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 the candidates’ agricultural platforms as I did to other aspects of the campaign. As far as farming went, I was more focused on what was going on with the Canadian election earlier this fall. So in an effort to get caught up and hopefully also formulate an opinion – and maybe even speculate on what lies ahead as so many writers are wont to do – I turned to the Internet to see what others are saying. And there seems no shortage of viewpoints. 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 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, higher food prices are becoming a fact of life. The growth of renewable fuels – especially ethanol whose main ingredient is corn – and the concept of growing plants for fuel instead of food are being pegged as the number one reason behind the rising food costs. This corn, the argument goes, is corn that should be going to feed people and not cars. |   | ||||
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A gas station in Ottawa is the first in the world to sell fuel made with wheat straw, says a major petroleum company.
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.