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GliderGuider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-11-07 06:25 AM
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Germany: The drinkable beer criris
Problems Brewing as EU Farmers Switch to Biofuels

HAMBURG - European beer brewers may face increasingly tight malt supplies later this year as farmers switch to grains for biofuel production, the head of a leading German malt marketing company said on Thursday.

"Malt producers will have to change their thinking and accept that sufficient supplies of malting barley are not going to be automatic and that they will face increasing competition from biofuel producers," Jochen Mautner, head of Jochen Mautner GmbH, told Reuters.

Now this is a crisis.

All kidding aside, crop based biofuels are putting pressure on food markets from all sides. What a good idea that was!
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-11-07 06:28 AM
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1. Wow, you're right about the crisis. This is bound to irk many people! nt
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