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Low-protein Wheat Used in Western Canada as Ethanol Feestock

Posted on Monday, May 5, 2008 posted by posted by Ecacofonix @ 7:55 PM

While the United States is using corn as the primary feedstock for ethanol and Brazil has been concentrating on sugar cane, the left-half of Canada is considering wheat. The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association hopes that the creation of fuel from wheat will help Canada's wheat farming community make a bit more profit, as corn-based ethanol has done (for good or for bad) for other farmers. Many farmers in Canada only plan to use low-protein wheat or damaged crops which are not suitable as food for the fuel feedstock. Still, the food-or-fuel debate looms large. There are a few issues with using wheat, but nothing that is insurmountable, or at least so this post thinks.

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