Posted on 01/16/2011 3:54:15 PM PST by blam
The yellow dent that’s grown in the Midwest, 1/2 goes to animal feed, the rest for starch, ethanol, and soda pop.
Anything like meal or flour is contracted. It may be yellow corn but not what we grow here in Iowa.
Sound like an Okie. LOL
My Mom had two refrigerators, a necessity when raising six kids and a freezer.
We also had two outside that where never turned on and used in the winter for extra food storage when she would cook way too much.
I wonder if the grid can take all that electricity put back on it.
What no DuPont fishing “gear”?
Due to the ever increasing demand for ethanol corn, we are not rotating crops as we’ve done in the past. The issue is much larger than you seem to understand.
While I agree with pretty much every point made in this article, I would like to add one more “commodity” people should be stocking up on... ammo.
We went out of the corn-bean-wheat rotation here in the Midwest because frankly we got too little snow and too much cold for wheat to survive the winter. Farmers just stopped growing wheat, but not necessarily by choice.
I think the same thing applies to the Constitution and our God given rights as free men. Will we awaken *before* they are smashing in our doors?
WAY too funny. Unfortunately, that’s because it’s way too true.
Ah well, thanks for the laugh. I’m going to paste it into an email to a lib who apparently worships the printing press.
Did a little checking on corn usage. Domestic crop in 2009 was 42% animal food, 10% human food (including a bit of beverage alcohol), 32% ethanol, and 16% exported. Not as much exported as I would have thought.
Don’t know how much of the ethanol corn is effectively recovered as animal food, but significant. This says to me that ethanol production is not a great factor in food prices at present.
A greater percentage of field corn is used as animal feed vs. the percentage used for human consumption, true. But your original comments indicated that "we eat sweet corn and white corn".
My comments pointed out that we don't just eat sweet corn and white corn, as most of the corn products we consume, except for fresh, canned and frozen, are derived from field (dent) corn.
"Do you know the actual percent of yellow used for human food vs. animal?"
Yes, I have the USDA statistics for US Corn Production & Use. In 2007, the US produced a little over 13 billion bushels of field corn. About 6.1 billion bushels of that went to feed livestock. 3 billion bushels went to ethanol production and a portion of that is livestock feed after the ethanol is produced. 2.45 billion bushels were exported and I do not have figures for specific use on those bushels. Just under 1 billion bushels were used to produce corn starch, corn sweeteners and corn oil, with the residue being livestock feed. 328 million bushels produced corn flour, meal, grits, masa and corn beverage, with the residue being used for livestock feed.
The economy has hit my business so badly that I've eaten most of my storage food (thank goodness I had it).
I'll be spending a lot more time next year on the garden. I don't see a choice.
And looters beware. I see a looter, I see fertilizer.
/johnny
It hasn't been, that is right. That is a piece of information that is hard to drive home on this forum. Everyone wants to believe that ethanol is bugaboo of food prices and it simply is not.
Looks like we have answered each other and reached consensus.
As easy as that was, I wish people would go to the trouble to look it up before complaining about how we are burning up our food supply.
Wow! That is startling.
I hope we have enough Navy left post-Obama to convoy our food sales and protect them from our creditors.
Yeah, what the heck would I understand about corn production or crop rotation ... we've only been prosperous farmers for forty-something years now. LOL.
Your expertise on this subject is derived from what exactly???
Do your homework on ethanol.
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