Here in southern MN, I have resisted growing corn on corn for a long time. I just prefer rotating crops. It has to be better to rotate.
Well, corn yields keep going up, bean yields are in the dumpster.
I have some fields that are on their 3rd year of corn, and some of the better corn I've ever had.
Most folks around here are cutting back on beans, going to more corn.
I might be slow, but I'm not totally stupid. Corn is the crop to grow here, and corn on corn works a lot better than some of these 'slanted' studies show.
That fella that was winning the corn yield challenge year after year? He was planting corn on corn. He couldn't put the field in beans, it would drop his yield potential.
I don't suppose ethanol from corn is the answer to our energy needs. But it does help clean up the air a little, and it does offer to stretch our fuel supplies a bit.
I understand the most efficient blend is in the 20 to 30% range. More than that and the lower btu shows up. Less than that and you don't get the full benefits of the ethanol to make a properly burning mix that combines a good temp, flash front, octane, etc etc in current gasoline engines.
Oil has an established infrastructure (shipping, pipelines, trucking, drilling equipment) mostly brought about by govt subsidies and grants to start industry back in the 30's, and continuing through today. Ethanol - or any energy change - needs an equal footing on that. It is impossible to change from the entrenched fuel supply to something new unless we pay for that infrastructure.
Solar & wind electric generation has far bigger subsidies per energy produced. If we want to complain about subsidies, then we will not ever change to any other energy.
Studies are nice, but anything can be proven if you are looking to prove it. We need to look at the big picture.
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