We have a surplus of corn. The price has plummeted. The is not enough storage space. The rail cars are hard to come by. Our local power plant had to pull strings, beg and jump through hoops to get rail cars for coal for the winter. Corn will be sitting in mountainous piles everywhere after harvest. we will be drowning in corn.
This is feed corn. There is too much corn for a reduced beef herd. Pig and chicken diseases have lowered the stocks of those animals. Humans do not directly eat this corn.
“Humans do not directly eat this corn.”
Back in the 1930’s, corn grain was used directly as home heating fuel, and there are still auger-fed corn-burning stoves available today. When the corn prices went so sky-high, because of the competing uses for corn, the grain-burning stoves largely disappeared, or were sold as sawdust-pellet stoves.
Some of the stoves were fitted so they could burn the entire stalk and leaves too. This trash left in the fields after harvest is still referred to as “stover”.
I actually was referring to feed corn, thinking that the price of it was still causing livestock reductions and the resulting inflation of the price of meat.
With this much excess corn, why is there a reduced beef herd? The price of meat is outrageous. I am considering only eating the meat that I kill myself if it keeps going in this direction.
All part of the plan. Can you say Keystone Pipeline? The railcars are transporting oil. Everybody knows this though. I just figured that I would type it.