The president of the National Farmers Union (NFU) has claimed that the biofuel industry does not simply offer "a choice between food and fuel".
Earlier this week, Peter Kendall told delegates at a European Parliament seminar in Brussels that biofuel plants will create not only fuel but also co-products such as animal feed, beet pulp and oilseed.
It comes as the sector is under pressure to provide evidence to show it is a sustainable energy resource which can meet EU targets on carbon emissions.
He said: "This will be the first policy to set standards as a condition of market access but the production of sustainable biofuels does not represent just a choice between food and fuel.
"This is about efficient use of land with, initially, two commodity products from a single land area – sustainable biofuel and high protein feed."
Mr Kendal added that these co-products play a key role in the food industry and are often not mentioned in debates about the sustainability of biofuels.
Typical Guttridge equipment used in the biofuel industry includes; conveyors – screw conveyors – chain conveyors – belt conveyors
