Impacts of biofuels development on the grains industry

February 2007 presented by Paul Higgins Biofuels represent a potential alternative market for Australian grain growers, but it's not that simple according to futurist Paul Higgins of Emergent Futures Pty Ltd who was a speaker at the GRDC Adviser Updates in February. Futurists make forecasts about the future but they don't predict it, according to Mr Higgins, who says there is a great deal of uncertainty about biofuels' effects on Australian agriculture. This is because the industry is driven by...