Chances are, parts of your car are made from Ontario-grown corn and soybeans.

Didn't know that?

Not many people do, but it's a growing reality as auto parts makers look for cheaper, more environmentally friendly alternative materials.

And local farmers are getting in on a piece of the action.

"Our goal is to have 300 kilograms from agriculture in every vehicle," Gord Surgeoner, president of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies, told the Western Fair Association last week.

"We don't own any car companies in Canada, but we have a lot of auto parts here."

Currently, about five kilograms of every car is made up of agricultural products -- from the foam in car seats, made partly from soybeans, to side panels in car doors made from corn.

"Many of these (agriculture-based) products -- not all -- are fully compostable," Surgeoner said, adding that as oil prices rise, agriculture can move in to fill a need in all sorts of industries.

"We're in that world now that our price points in agriculture are doing what oil used to do , but you have to provide performance. We have to have products that are the same or better than before."