A second area of interest for triticale is use of the straw for biofuel production. Studies in the U.K. have found triticale outperforms wheat as a biofuel feedstock because it uses less Nitrogen to achieve similar yields (Davis-Knight and Weightman 2008). Research efforts are currently being supported by the Canadian government to develop triticale as a feedstock with a production goal of 1 million acres of production by 2015.