I agree that the ethanol thing is idiotic but the corn only displaced soybeans and cotton for the most part.
But those soybeans, as well as a lot of that corn used to go for livestock feed, and since now it isn't, the cost of feed has gone up, thus increasing the price of meat and poultry in the supermarket. And that increase is on top of the increase in shipping cost due to fuel price increases.
that’s right.
there’s a limited amount of farm land.
when some farm commodity goes sky high the fallow land comes out into production, but there are still limits.
they could leave the corn alone and
use kudzu.