April meeting to solicit farmer input on green energy policies
In the fanciful Brothers Grimm fairy tale, dwarfish Rumpelstiltskin spun straw into gold to win the miller’s daughter’s first born child. The federal government is spending money to turn straw, and other products left after crop harvest and processing, into this Millennium’s equivalent of gold, green energy.
Last week in London, Elgin-Middlesex-London MP Joe Preston, speaking for federal agriculture minister Gerry Ritz, announced $8.7-million in funding over three years to assist the development of technologies to increase the industrial value of crops like surplus cereal straw now left in the field. The press conference was focusing on the scientific community.
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