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Ethanomics 101
The shining promise of ethanol doesn't add up for farmers |
Tom Philpott |
25 Oct 2006 |
Victual Reality |
| No one can begrudge corn farmers their share of euphoria over the recent ethanol boom. Until very recently, their plight could be summed up by a bit of gallows humor I once heard from a dairy farmer: "I lose money on every gallon, so I try to make up for it on volume." Hopes are rising along with corn prices. That brief sentence sums up the desperation of large-scale farming. When p ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, Big Ag, energy, ethanol, renewable energy, Victual Reality (all these topics) |
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