Originally Posted by Kas
Originally Posted by raedar63
Corn prices may be the culprit?
The expense to plant corn has skyrocketed the past few years, we as small farmers could not even afford to plant it. We will plant corn this year for the first time in about 4 years and only to give the soil a break . (Soil likes and needs rotation)
Corn has been going up as a food staple because it is being diverted into the fuel business. Write to your congressperson and ask them to stop the ethanol subsidies. We should be eating our corn, not driving it. Not to mention that it is terrible for your engine. So the price of feed corn due to ethanol plus the cost of oil is what is making food prices skyrocket. It is only going to get worse before it gets better.
I'm a farmer's daughter - my dad never had a hired hand.
Spent my teen age years working the farm. I have a question, has the weather been bad for farming these past few years? I know rain spoiled a lot of cotton in the last few years...but corn is grown widely and used for a lot of competing industries, maybe the demand is greater than the production can meet?
I hate to deprive you of part of your argument, but the ethanol won't hurt your car. In fact it runs smoother, because, for one thing it raises the octane rating, and absorbs any condensation water in the fuel and carries it out through the the burning of the fuel in the cylinders.
It is true that your car won't run as far on ethanol as it will on gasoline though, so maybe that was what you meant?