"...The farmers will get rich anyway you work this..."
This is a problem?
Ann
Don't we pay farmers NOT to grow things? Why not try to get them to plant more.
This is a problem?
From the perch of his $180,000 six-row combine, churning through cornfields that stretch as far as the eye can see, John Phipps has a rare view of American farm policy.
Today, he calls himself an "industrial farmer" who uses computers, technology and science to get the most out of the 1,800 acres of corn and soybeans he plants in an area of Illinois where the weather and soil are ideal for farming. The strategy has paid off with bigger and better yields.
Yet to Congress and federal agricultural officials, Phipps and his wife, Jan, are struggling family farmers. Last year, the government sent the Phippses a check for $120,000. Thousands of similar checks arrived throughout the Corn Belt, even as many farmers had bumper crops.
Federal Subsidies Turn Farms Into Big Business
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/20/AR2006122001591_pf.html
No, its not a problem, but they don't need subsidies and sweetheart deals to do it. All, I'm saying is the demand is so high, we could take ethanol or feed stocks from several places and the price would still be sky high for farmers, but we would have tons more ethanol at a cheaper price.