Yes, I saw your other response with the numbers. I don't pay any more attention to the numbers from those studies than I do to the claims of the environmentalists. Both tend to support the theory that the author wants to support. What I want to see, in hard proof is ethanol produced from a pure, closed loop system where no oil based inputs are used. If that can't be shown, then it would stand to reason that ethanol is actually consuming oil rather than displacing oil. I don't particularly care than ethanol is made from corn to absorb a cheap commodity... but the reasons ought to be made clear. It's quite clear from reading through the majority of the reply's to this thread than many people believe ethanol to be a great idea, and some beleive it to be a replacement for oil. I wonder how much thought goes into that position in some cases.
I don't know that I'd really say cheap corn caused confinement feeding though. It's no doubt a factor... but I look around here. Confinement feeding hasn't ended because corn got expensive, and believe me, we're a long way from you. Feed is expensive here, largely because it spends a long time in a car. Labor and predictable production are the main things driving confinement feeding here. I'm speaking more in terms of dairy than hogs. We have no hog industry left, period. I think that increasing financial pressures all the time are also driving operations into becoming larger, and in so doing, confinement is the only practical approach...
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