Initially ethanol production made a lot of sense to both reduce our dependance on foreign oil AND subsidise corn producers by creating another market for under-priced corn. Both proposes have been met sucessfully.
Currently, corn is no longer under-valued and is a now high priced input for producing ethanol. The ethanol plant by Buffalo Lake, MN was recently awarded to it's lenders (in forclosure?).
I my opinion, ethanol production will eventually need to shift from consuming high priced corn to using lower cost inputs: corn stover, straw, crops that can be grown and harvested on erosion-subsidised ground, downed trees, leaves, yard waste, moldy hay, road-side grasses, used cardboard, etc. The production process might have to change with the seasons to match the inputs available. Managing a plant using a wide variety of low quality inputs will be much more difficult than using one consistent high-quality input like corn.
So far little progress has been made to use other inputs. That may doom ethanol production in the future.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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