Hopes are being pinned on biofuels as a way out of the agriculture crisis. Ethanol and bio-diesel, the hopeful say, will increase the demand for crops like wheat and canola enough to make farming profitable again. Farmers and governments have pinned so much hope on biofuels because the traditional things that used to be trotted out as reasons for hope have pretty much crashed and burned.
In Canada, the last two such hopes were the World Trade Organization and a Conservative government. Most farmers now realize the WTO will never bring prosperity, and the Conservative Harper government has shown little indication it will end the immediate cash crisis on farms by the only means …
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