It isn’t 5 times times the farmers or farmland
that would be needed to put out ethanol so that
all gas would have 10% blend. Corn acreage is
92 million acres, 1/4 for ethanol, or 23M acres
There is 30 Million in crappy CRP, there is over twice
that acreage that isn’t used or underused.And it all could be farmed by the present number of farmers as it is all
next door to what they already farm.All ag land
being used actively for ag is more than just corn, and farmers if allowed or can make a little, can add to that
the unused acreage, an increase of about 20%...Ed
There is about 3% of ethanol use in our gasoline now and the alcoholics want to raise that to 15%. That's five times as much production. Five times the farmers, five times the land, five times the equipment, five times the water, five times the fertilizer. You want to do with the current workforce? Pay overtime? How much will that cost?