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Conservatives and the liberal media seem to agree on reporting ethanol as a problem leading to higher food prices.

Of course for those who make money from the ethanol business
they could care less about the higher food prices.

GET RID OF SPENDING OUR TAX MONEY ON ETHANOL, PLANNED PARENTHOOD, PUBLIC BROADCASTING AND THE LIST GOES ON.

THAT’S A GOOD START TO A ‘LIBERTY PARTY’ PLATFORM THAT SAYS
NO DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE LIST GOES ON.

ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WORK IN THOSE DEPARTMENTS CAN LOSE THEIR JOBS THAT COST US TAXPAYERS BILLIONS OF BUCKS.

"Conservatives and the liberal media seem to agree on reporting ethanol as a problem leading to higher food prices."

Yeah, in the "media" this is a fairly constant meme. Unfortunately, much of both the "conservative" (Fox) and "liberal" media are heavily owned by OPEC (in various national guises), which are very much interested in keeping the US "on the oil tit".

But when I go to the USDA website, where there exist every POSSIBLE statistic on crops, crop prices, yields per acre, acreage planted and actually look for EVIDENCE, I don't find it. I was raised on a family farm, where both corn and soybeans were the cash crops, so I am pretty well acquainted with the trends (past and present) of prices to farmers for those, and have kept a nodding awareness of those ever since I graduated from college (1973).

"Of course for those who make money from the ethanol business they could care less about the higher food prices.

Which is precisely what the left and OPEC want you to think. But, to the best I can find out from direct evidence, it ain't ethanol production that is driving it. I would suspect energy prices are a MAJOR factor, just like they are for everything. But the OPEC-owned folks don't want you to notice THAT, so THAT won't be reported significantly.

I pretty much agree with you on shrinking government everywhere as you suggest, but IMO, you (and many others) are being misled by a bunch of propaganda related to ethanol-from-corn.

Note that the same forces are behind the gigantic "anti-fracking" meme that the media is trying to foist on the public to prevent major exploitation of "home-grown" shale gas and oil supplies.