feed wheat v oil price

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Ianben;

Very well put!

WE CAN DO BETTER!

WE MUST DO Better... for our communities and environment to be sustainable.

Farm Gate pricing of produce... can produce innovation within a nation... whether England or Canada, US or Japan... Kenya or India... it does not matter where.

There is enough room for us all!

God Bless the people of this little blue planet... third from the sun!

Being it is Rememberance Day, for those who fought and died for our freedom:

May we embrace the creative spirit our forefathers used, fought for, died for;

Creating a vision of a prosperous tomorrow, full of hope, which is the essence of being a creative, alive, human being!

[tower]

ianben, thankyou for the primer. The problem with biomass which incidentally includes all of us and the four legged, winged, crawly things of the earth as well as it used to contain the dinosaurs, is that despite being quite capable of being the good thing mentioned in your article it is also more likely to turn into a bad thing.

Bad for the environment, the economy, and our energy future. It can cause climate change, water pollution, soil degradation, and wreck wildlife habitat, and forests.

It depends on what we are doing to create it and how aware we are that dependance on biomass fuels could use up our forests at an unsustainable rate, given the precarious condition of our carbon sink already.

If we are willing to sell it for less than it costs to produce it, which arises in a situation where the producers need cheap inputs, ie grains, plus subsidies to make the final product competitive, we will likely see soil depletion as farmers try to counter this new downward pressure by over exploiting their farms.