Keep your eye on the opportunity sell more wheat straw in the future.

There’s a company that’s moved its packaging container manufacturing business from China to Devils Lake, N.D. The CEO says there could be a dozen more plants in the state someday, according to an article in the Farmers’ Forum, which is published by the Fargo Forum newspaper.

Mack Trayor, CEO of Ultra Green, Devils Lake, N.D., says he’d love to see farmers think of straw as a cash crop someday. Ultra Green sells containers made from wheat to Whole Foods, Hyatt, Winn Dixie and other countries The non-paper packaging is microwave safe, okay for use in freezers and they will biodegrade in 60 to 90 days in a commercial composter.

Why such a bullish outlook? Bans on the use of Styrofoam containers are spreading and Ultra Green’s only competitors in the U.S. are using recycled paper products.

“In our case, you don’t have to pay a premium to go green,” Trayor told Farmers’ Forum reporter Tracy Frank. “We’ve got products that are better, they don’t cost any more and, oh, by the way, they’re green.”

That sounds like a combination of factors that might increase the demand for wheat straw.

Read more about Ultra green in the Farmers Forum.