On 4/21/2014 6:41 PM, dpb wrote:
On 4/21/2014 4:30 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
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However..there has been a shortage of other crops as they were not
planted to make room for corn. Thats quite factual and feel free to
look it up.

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U.S. Farmers Expect to Plant Record-High Soybean Acreage
Planting Intentions Surpass Historic Soybean Record by 4 Million
Acres, USDA Reports

WASHINGTON, March 31, 2014 –Producers surveyed across the United
States intend to plant an estimated 81.5 million acres of soybeans
in2014, up 6 percent from last year and an all-time record high, ...


Say what, again????

Again, you've got to look at the details and it helps to know something
about agriculture that most popular press reports lack. Low acreages
last year were owing almost completely to the extremely wet/late spring
in the major corn and bean parts of the US while continuing drought in
the High Plains hurt some winter wheat plantings...

But those are not issues having any thing whatsoever to do w/ corn
ethanol. Again, "correlation does not imply causation". Just because
ethanol production is up doesn't mean bean planting acreage is down
because of it.

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