Creating new value from waste.

[Farmer4Life]

North America’s first large-scale, non-wood pulp mill using wheat straw, not trees, to make high-quality pulp for sustainable packaging, tissue, and molded products. Their proprietary production processes have a number of environmental advantages – significantly lower water, reagent and energy use, enhanced utilization of existing as-residual resources, novel alternative fuels, and creating a carbon positive pathway

[Old Cowzilla]

Lets hope they got that straw tec figured out .The Elie Straw Board plant in Manitoba was before its time and left the locals with a big eye sore and rodent problem. Took years to clean up the mess. With the rise in petro chemicals cost over runs could happen again. Shred some of the old straw bales from there down at the neighbors feedlot for him. Glad those bales weren't in my yard lots of wild life in them.

[Tucker]

Between the organic matter value in straw and now the knowledge of the nutrient value that it has are the producers going to be compensated fairly for it? It isn't valueless 'residue' and modern machinery can easily seed through it and have the benefits of it decomposing right where it's spread on the fields. The days of the local cow guys asking you to drop 40 acres of straw for them for free ended over 20 years ago. If these guys think the only people they will have to pay are the balers and haulers they may be in for a rude awakening.

[AllisWD45]

Hope it’s not like Kamsack one never really opened before it closed

[wrongway]

Pretty much only cattle guys using conventional combines every one else using some brand of rotary and straight cutting fairly high so won't be much straw left especially wheat stubble. Value of straw will be rising along with fertilizer prices. a lot of head winds on this venture. I guess if it gets enough green program government money the principals will get a salary till they run out of money.

[TASFarms]

They are going to burn some of it,Plus truck it from 100km radius. That good for a carbon foot print?
last time I check straw isn’t waste. Maybe to a city slicker.

Just another laundry machine in the liberal

is this straw plant number 5 in western Canada?

[TASFarms]

Alright, let’s work through this step by step.

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Step 1 – Understanding the problem
We have:

· 3 bales
· Each bale weighs 1,400 lb
· 50% of the bale’s mass is carbon
· We want tonnes of CO?

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Step 2 – Total weight of bales

3 \times 1,400 = 4,200 \text{ lb}

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Step 3 – Carbon content
50% of total weight is carbon:

4,200 \times 0.5 = 2,100 \text{ lb of carbon}

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Step 4 – Convert lb carbon to tonnes carbon
1 tonne = 2,204.62 lb (metric ton)

2,100 \div 2,204.62 \approx 0.952 \text{ tonnes of carbon}

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Step 5 – Convert tonnes of carbon to tonnes of CO?
Atomic mass: C = 12, O? = 32 ? CO? = 44.

\text{CO? mass} = \text{C mass} \times \frac{44}{12}



0.952 \times \frac{44}{12} \approx 0.952 \times 3.666\ldots \approx 3.49 \text{ tonnes CO?}

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Step 6 – Final answer

\boxed{3.49}

So 3 bales at 1,400 lb each with 50% carbon correspond to about 3.5 tonnes of CO?.

[blackpowder]

The problem with predictions is they use past experiences and can't foresee future technology and needs. With that CYA caveat, I call BS. I would not invest.

[farmaholic]

My God, this land needs the straw left where it grew, not baled and trucked off.
Continuous cropping was the best thing that happened to this farm. Seldom, IF EVER, is straw seen as worthless byproduct of growing a crop here. Straw is seldom a burden here, some places it might prove to be more difficult. Lots of semi-dwarf cereals grown to mitigate excess straw.

Remember the big push with Prairie Clean Energy who wanted to pelletize flax straw and ship it to Europe for heating. I don't hold a Bachelor of Anything and couldn't see that making sense. Talk about an environmental footprint? Thats what happens with green brainwashing. They've already "pivoted". I do admit we burn the flax straw when we grow it, but it wouldn't be as harmful to the environment as trying to turn it into something else that needs untolled distances of travel, from field to end-user, just be burned anyway.
Not brave enough to punch flaxstraw through a rotary combine and its chopper, tough on chopper, kinda comes out the rotory lumpy and "noodle-ized". I think a chopper would handle the flax straw from a conventional better.

Boy I hate to be a wet blanket on this topic, but that's my view.

[mcfarms]

Yet another con man doing a con job. Get some stupid RM or County to give you a grant get a matching one from the stupid AG minister , hold a few meetings pay yourself a good salary and sneak off into the night.
The prairies are littered with straw and pulse plants that never happened, anybody heard from phytokana lately. Wonder if that 10 million grant from the Alberta govt is all spent yet.