Originally Posted By: hatt
Originally Posted By: TiredTrucker
The EPA is behind the mandates, that is true, and I am against just about everything the EPA does, and there are no subsidies any more. Haven't been for over two years now, and that was at the request of the ethanol producers. Well, the name calling was accurate.
If someone thinks that a chunk of crop land is just corn, corn, corn, corn year after year after year, then they are a nincompoop. No farming operation does that. They rotate crops as I mentioned. And from what I have read from some, it is quite clear they probably have never even set foot on a farm, let alone have any basic idea of what goes on with one. In the words of John Wayne in the movie "Mclintock"...... "they think that cows are something you milk, and Indians are something in front of a cigar store". Pretty much sums it up.
I know how useless it is to present you with facts and research from previous run ins with you. But here goes anyway for everyone else to look at. You just continue on with your ethanol shilling.
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Many Midwest growers are considering more corn in their cropping mix, but that usually means
growing corn after corn, a situation that adds production costs, can increase risk, and most would
say compromises yield potential.
But many with experience raising corn on corn see no
additional risk and a situation where they can raise some of their best yields.
They have found
ways to make the continuous cropping system work, managing crop residues with fall nitrogen
and tillage, maintaining high P and K levels in the soil, adequate amounts of applied nitrogen, and
high plant populations.
Purdue University
Wow. You have Purdue and whatever academic is pushing that view. I have a farm and a large family that have other farms, friends that farm, and we come from a line that has been farming these farms since the 1800's. As opposed to some academia farmer wannabe's at Purdue, we know what works best on farm ground. We all have our college degrees too. We don't have some Ma and Pa Kettle operations going on. And corn after corn after corn is not cost effective, is not beneficial to the soil, is not in any way a good thing. What someone Purdue economist dreamed up is not what goes on out here in the real world. Grain prices do not support such techniques as well. Sure, you might find a few commercial growers that are short sighted and have no problem screwing up their ground, but that is not the norm by any stretch of the imagination. And I would bet that after corn prices settled from their spike a couple of years ago, that it is hard to find anyone playing the corn after corn after corn game. Purdue aside. But then, those academics are not dependent on what the grain prices are and how to run business'. They have tenure and that is all that matters and they will spout the University party line.
I am not a shill for ethanol. I am tired of all the nonsense that gets thrown around about it by folks who barely know how to plant a garden and wouldn't know the working end of a dairy cow trying to claim certain things about farming and how we do things on farms. But it has always been that way. Government hacks and academics in cubicles always deciding what is best for farming. And the so-called experts on ethanol that are really Johnny come lately's, when we have been using ethanol in various blends in almost all of or gasoline fired engines for several decades with no problems. I could really care less if anyone uses ethanol or not. That is the beauty of the system, you pull up to some fuel pumps and make a selection. It is really telling how some, because of their prejudice against a product, will do everything they can to line up anecdotal evidences of the sky is falling scenario about that product. Hey, you can just not buy it! Simple. Oh, you have to because of the government? Well, 3/4 of the country wanted a government that would crawl into our lives so much, so deal with it. Yep, 3/4 of the nation like this kind of thing. How do I know this? 1/2 of the eligible people do not vote, so they by default support this stuff. The half that do vote, half of them actively like this kind of stuff. There is your 3/4 of the nation. Now we all have to live with it.