Canada: 5% ethanol mix would require over 50% of national corn crop

National Post – In 2005, Canada produced 372 million bushels of corn, 61% of it from Ontario, and imported 87 million bushels, according to a report from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture. One bushel of corn produces 10 litres of ethanol. So to fill 5% of Canada’s fuel would take more than half of Canada’s corn crop.

Ethanol, [Terry Daynard, professor at the University of Guelph, farmer and former president of the CRFA] says, will also have to come from other sources, such as wheat barley and eventually primarily from cellulose (straw or corn husks).

National Post