"Biodiesel Harvest" Promoted at Farm Tech Days

ALBANY, WISCONSIN – September 17th, 2007 – Wisconsin’s biodiesel industry is meeting with farmers at this week’s Farm Tech Days to promote biodiesel use during this year’s harvest. The farm exposition is being held September 18-20 in Albany.

Jeff Pieterick, President of the Wisconsin Biodiesel Association (WBA), acknowledges that Wisconsin farmers are already among biodiesel’s biggest advocates and therefore don’t need to be sold on the benefits of using the alternative to petroleum diesel. “Promoting the use of biodiesel to Wisconsin farmers is a bit like taking coal to Newcastle,” says Pieterick. “The Wisconsin Soybean Association and others in the state ag industry understand biodiesel and have historically promoted the home grown fuel as a value-added agricultural product that supports this nation’s energy independence.”

The WBA “Biodiesel Harvest” promotional effort at Farm Tech Days, however, is designed to take the state’s biodiesel industry to the next step in its development by increasing availability of the product for consumers. WBA is asking farmers to request biodiesel from their local fuel distributor to help fuel this Fall’s harvest. By demanding biodiesel from their suppliers, farmers will encourage distributors to make biodiesel more available not only to their farm customers, but to all retail purchasers of diesel fuel.

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