Well said. I will add that a lot of the material needed to make the nitrogen fertilizer needed to grow corn comes from out of our country as well. And much of the other fertilizers needed to make it all work are imported too. I believe in a closed system where farmers convert corn to beef, pork, milk or some other livestock product, and then keep that manure to put back on the fields. If we keep exporting corn to other uses, we need to buy many more nutrients back to replenish the fertility in our soil. I realize that livestock production isn't for everyone, and that growing strictly grain for sale has paid the bills better than anything else in agriculture lately, but someday that will change, and those who are diversified with livestock will be better off than those trying to fill a corn delivery obligation at below break-even prices.
Additionally, some of the previous posts compared dollars spent to dollars earned in creating ethanol and tried to make that translate into an energy comparison, where comparing BTU's spent to BTU's gained is how it should be looked at.
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