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Re: OF: Can corn or soybeans be the crop of the fu
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Posted by kyhayman on December 06, 2004 at 19:11:47 from (205.188.117.7):
In Reply to: Re: OF: Can corn or soybeans be the crop of the fu posted by 7720future on December 06, 2004 at 14:27:07:
I'm with paul on this, corn will continue to be the mainstay of American agriculture. Its all about markets and uses. Individual farms may meet a local need for something like squash, tomatoes, mint, dill, flowers, etc. Fiber crops, hemp, kenaf lack infrastructure and would, at best be another commodoty crop. Hay and forages face the bulk transportation issue (ruminant animal feed due to volume gets expensive fast when shipped). You have to look at the end use of anything to determine demand (I am a dedicated believer in reverse engineering). We live in a western post-modern economy. Population growth is flat (and declining in some western economies). Expanded production must have a market. Our greatest need is renewable fuels. We have more than enough to eat (hence our societal weight problem). Someone else will have to eat what we produce or we have to export it. To export it, it has to either suplant someone elses exports (with higher quality or lower prices) or it has to go to feed calorie deficient parts of the world (and they dont have enough money to buy what we produce. That brings us back to domestic markets and the things we a deficient in. Once again, energy for fuel tops the list.
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