[cookcounty]

"-——The farmers switched to corn rather than wheat——— Reference please"

It's pretty well established that the ethanol cash cow has pushed farmers to plant much more corn than previously, leading to less acreage for other crops.

[bert]

.....It’s pretty well established that the ethanol cash cow has pushed farmers to plant much more corn......

I’ll accept that with no problem. Fallow land in the corn region would be planted. It is the market at work.

The issue I had was planting corn rather than wheat.

My reasoning.....
Corn and wheat are grasses. Corn grows best in the tall grass regions...the corn belt. Wheat grows best in the short grass regions.... the wheat belt. Corn doesn’t grow well in the plains.

That is in regions where the most wheat is grown, farmers could not switch and obtain the same value per acre. That is why I asked.

In the east where both are grown, perhaps it would be more profitable to plant corn rather than wheat except..... it takes different harvest machines