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To: one_less who wrote (2245)	10/3/2006 5:48:52 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) of 10087

<<Ish tells me that ethanol is produced from the waste products of corn production. >> It's not 100% waste but was used in things like making paper, really fattening up food critters and the ever popular high fructose corn syrup that is in many foods and is very bad for you. Using the starch for ethanol instead of the other uses gets about 27 more cents per bushel. From one bushel of corn we get 2.8 gallons of ethanol. We still also get 13.5 pounds of gluten food, 2.6 pounds of gluten meal and 1.5 pounds of corn meal. <<A while back I heard we are subsidizing grain farmers not to grow so much because we end up with a huge excess. Is that still true?>> Long while back. That was the layout ground of 20 years ago and before. Now the more you grow the bigger the check, depending on the price of corn. We have an extra 2 billion bushels of corn on hand going INTO harvest, at 60 pounds a bushel, that's a shit pot of corn. Now figure into that another 12 billion bushels being harvested in the next 2 months. HOWEVER, looking at the rate of WORLD WIDE corn usage we need to plant 5 million more acres of corn the next two seasons to keep from running low. That's if we don't have weather problems and average 160 bu per acre. << If so, that deflates much of Pimental's >> Look him up, he teaches raising grapes and apples. His opinion is like having your proctologist doing your heart bypass.

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