Gasoline or Bread 1927On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 00:29:42 +0100, Pooh Bear "buttuming state-of-the-art practices, the net energy ratio...
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Gasoline or Bread 1928Arif Khokar Says who ? There's a lot of outdated data out there ! I've seen that many ppl...
The US government has not paid farmer to not plant corn for years. I've been running a farm for the past 20 years, and never once have I been paid not to plant something. In fact the opposite was true to a certain extent before W started screwing things up. The Government set floors on commodity prices which encouraged me to grow corn and cotton instead of certain other crops. Now they have set the floor on the corn price so low, only a fool would try to grow corn for the government price. I actually considered not planting corn this year because I was worried the price would be below the incremental cost of production (it has been below the fully accounted cost of production for several years). In the end I planted it any way, and I think I'll make out given the current prices. However, until the price of corn goes up, it is a very marginal crop. I am lucky I have a number of alternate crops that are more profitable most years. I mostly grow corn as a rotational crop - although it is my number one crop in terms of acres.
Ed
