[JustaDumbBlonde]

Please tell me what specifically is the food production problem? This country has, for decades and decades, produced more crops that it can consume. Add to mix that varieties of corn and beans are being developed that offer the possibility of huge yields in parts of the country where corn and beans have never been king.

Take my state, for example. There are farmers harvesting 200 bu/acre corn fairly regularly when 100 bu/acre was the norm a decade or two ago, due to the intense heat and humidity we endure. Cotton ground is being turned into corn ground at a head turning rate.

Same goes for wheat. Last year my husband and I averaged 90 bu/acre on our wheat harvest. That is almost unheard of here. This year there is wheat as far as the eye can see because new varieties are allowing us to take advantage of the good market price. With double-cropping, which we can do because of the long growing season that we enjoy here, cotton and grain sorghum will be planted behind the wheat.

[Delacon]

Are you telling me that all the articles I’ve read about how the increased demand for corn due to the ethanol mandate causing the increase in prices in corn based food stuffs and the meat/dairy industry are wrong? I’ll have to look into that. I’ll start here.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ethanol+causing+increase+dairy+prices