Aren't you getting paid NOT to grow stuff? That's how you make money as
a farmer!
--R
Curt Raymond wrote:
You know that the media is lying to you about the "global food shortage" right?
MANY farms in northern Maine are lying fallow right now, they'll grow cow corn
or sugar beets just fine if theres sufficient market for the stuff, there isn't
thus the farms aren't being used. When those farms are at even 50% production
(I have 15 acres available for rent if we rent 6 I'd venture to call that 50%)
then I'll start being concerned about global food shortage.
"Global food shortage" really means "Price of food has risen to cover the cost of
production"...
-Curt
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:08:14 -0600
From: "Tom Hargrave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Ethanol/Why it works in Brazil/Stolen from OTC
Journal
To: "'Mercedes Discussion List'" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
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Larry,
So, you are telling us that sugar beets grow in soil that no food crop will
grow on? Maybe they grow them on rocks? I don't think so - every acre used
to grow sugar beets could be used to grow food and this represents a loss of
food stocks. Matter of fact, we grow sugar beets here in the US as a food
product - sugar! Sorry to disappoint you but you are being fed a load of BS.
On the flip side, both cane & beets produce more ethanol per acre than corn
but only because the entire corn stalk & ear can't be converted. We convert
only the corn kernels which comprise a small percentage of the entire corn
plant. Some extremely intelligent researchers in this country have figured
out how to convert the rest through the use of the right enzymes & process
but the process is not economical yet. Once they figure it out, we can eat
the corn & convert the corn stalks to ethanol - the best of both worlds!
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
www.kegkits.com
256-656-1924
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