[R_Kangel]

..... I was under the impression that the corn grown and used for Ethanol Production was actually different than the corn used for food .... So how can the government just wave a magic wand and increase production of Ethanol Use Corn ...... Not to mention the shortage of fertilizer that will stymie additional production of this corn.

[woodbutcher1963]

Sweet corn is what you buy in the grocery store by the ear or in the can/freezer bags.

Cow corn is what farmers grow to feed livestock. This is the type of corn also used for ethanol production.
So, diverting more corn production to use in ethanol makes feed corn more expensive. It probably has an effect on swine and cattle feed pricing.
It is not going to affect the price of milk.

[dalight]

Corn is corn. There are varieties of corn but it breaks down to field corn and sweet corn. The sweet corn is what you buy at the grocery store. Field corn is made into products like corn chips and such. But, also, corn production is fertilizer intensive, and if a field is producing corn, it isn’t producing wheat.

[dalight]

Not so much. The processing is different. Another post here goes into this a bit. But, they chemically treat the corn to remove most of the starch content and convert that to corn liquer. The remainder is sold as a feed additive.

[Terabitten]

I was under the impression that the corn grown and used for Ethanol Production was actually different than the corn used for food

You are correct. According to iowacorn.org, 99% of the corn grown in Iowa is field corn. Only 1% is sweet corn. Field corn is grown specifically for ethanol and livestock consumption. Sweet corn is grown for human consumption.