Post Date - June 20th 2008 10:06 pm | 12 days 9 hours ago
Spd article by NY extension article: "Nationally, corn acreage will actually be more than 8% lower than last year. This reality counters the expectation that corn would become the most widely planted crop for use in ethanol." ?!!
Post Date - June 20th 2008 10:06 pm | 12 days 9 hours ago
Producers are considering rationing of their goods, which would prevent depletion of the already slim corn reserves, and also keep prices high. "We're going to have rationing in ethanol, feed and exports," said the president of Farmers National Commoditie
Post Date - June 5th 2008 10:06 pm | 27 days 9 hours ago
"I am not in favor of producing ethanol from corn or other food crops," da Silva said in his address to the conference. Corn ethanol, as produced in the U.S., is "shot up with subsidies and shielded behind tariff barriers."
Post Date - May 10th 2008 01:05 am | 1 month 23 days ago
I submit that the entire corn crop of the US is a very optimistic upper limit for the yield of dedicated crop land for ethanol. Thus, ethanol will, at best, replace a relatively small fraction of our gasoline usage.
Post Date - May 2nd 2008 10:05 am | 2 months 2 days ago
Excellent analysis by Dan Morgan on why wheat is loosing acreage in the USA against corn.
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