We have updated the online documents for the Farming for the Future conference.

- The call for papers can be downloaded by clicking here.
- Registration Information can be downloaded here

We will continue to update this space as documents become available.

Biogas and related technologies are opening a new era for agriculture, where farmers can grow fuel (energy) as well as food.

As a result, farmers will be able to:

• stabilize farm income

• produce renewable energy in the form of heat, electricity, and fuel alcohol

• develop unrealized agricultural resources

• help foster rural development

• provide cornerstone contributions to creating sustainable communities

Out of all the energy we need, electricity is possibly the most important to us. If as Ontario urbanites we don't have gas, we take a train or a bus, but turn off our electricity, the X-BOX ceases to function, Computer and Internet are dead and we just might freeze to death in winter. Fortunately our last complete blackout was only during summer. August 2003 almost brought Toronto to its knees with only [if I remember correctly] 24 hours of water left in the towers and not a free electron in the wires.