[OKSooner]

"Ethanol" corn, whatever variety is might be called, might not be corn for human consumption but every acre planted with it is another lost acre of land that could be used for food crops.

Also one suspects that the hogs in the hog farms and the steers in the feedlots would eat "Ethanol" corn without complaint.

[Mr. Lucky]

Cattle will eat corn without complaint, but they are ruminants so don't require the starch. The corn pretty much goes right through them.

An old saying in these parts is: "if you feed corn to your cattle, your pigs and chickens eat for free".

More seriously, spent distiller's corn is fed as high protein livestock feed; distillation removes the starch, but not other nutrients.

[Alberta's Child]

Modern agriculture is not as simple as just making a decision one day to plant a different crop on your 3,000-acre farm or selling your existing ethanol corn crop to different customers for a different use. Interestingly, I suspect a big factor in the push for ethanol in gasoline is that it gave corn farmers a new market for their crops after corn had slowly been displaced by soybeans as the preferred feedstock for farm animals.

[Alberta's Child]

Modern agriculture is not as simple as just making a decision one day to plant a different crop on your 3,000-acre farm or selling your existing ethanol corn crop to different customers for a different use. Interestingly, I suspect a big factor in the push for ethanol in gasoline is that it gave corn farmers a new market for their crops after corn had slowly been displaced by soybeans as the preferred feedstock for farm animals.