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http://ethanolproducer.com/article.jsp?article_id=3175&am ...On In related news, the '07 corn harvest will break records posted 2 years, 2 months ago 16 Responses

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Isn't that exactly what I said would be a better argument against corn ethanol?  "damage to cropland from poor rotation decisions"On In related news, the '07 corn harvest will break records posted 2 years, 2 months ago 16 Responses

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I'm not a fan of Corn Ethanol, but please at least get the facts right.  

You say: "You forgot to mention that conservation reserve carbons sinks are going under the plow to pull this off". TFA makes it seem as though most of the new acres are coming from what would have been soybean production.

"According to USDA's Acreage report, (June 29, 2007), farmers planted nearly 93 million acres to corn this year, up over 14 million acres, or 18.6 percent, from 2006."..."much of the 2007 increase in U.S. corn acreage will come from reduced soybean plantings, which are down more than 11 million acres (15 percent) from 2006."  

Now Wikipedia weakens your case even more:"Due to the increasing prices for Maize and Soy, a larger than 3 million acres (12,000 km²) outtake of area from the conservation program was anticipated. The impact of this outtake is even smaller as "only 354,771 acres [1436 km²)] were in the top five corn and soybean producing states"

Now for your argument: "food prices are screaming upwards as grain stocks drop."  

Not so much actually, CPI food prices are screaming upwards mostly because energy prices are increasing.  "Increases in energy prices for example exert a
greater impact on food prices than does the price of corn. A 33 percent increase in crude oil prices -
which translates into a $1.00 per gallon increase in the price of conventional regular gasoline -
results in a 0.6 percent to 0.9 percent increase in the CPI for food while an equivalent increase in
corn prices ($1.00 per bushel) would cause the CPI for food to increase only 0.3 percent."

So please, if you are going to argue against corn, use a different tactic.  A few of the better ones are the poor energy balance, reduction in biodiversity, damage to cropland from poor rotation decisions, fertilizer runoff, etc.On In related news, the '07 corn harvest will break records posted 2 years, 2 months ago 16 Responses