Posted on 04/04/2014 5:38:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Beer-makers in Colorado are upset about a proposal to keep them from recycling their used grain, and it could affect how much you pay for a beer this summer.
The Food and Drug Administration wants to stop beer brewers from selling their leftover grain to ranches so it can be used as food for cattle.
It’s not a requirement yet, but beer-makers make money off their used grain and say the new regulation would force them to dump millions of tons of it instead of recycling.
The grains are used barley, wheat and other grains that are steeped in hot water. The FDA is trying to make sure beer-makers meet the same standards as livestock and pet food manufactuers.
The overhaul also involves new sanitary handling procedures. The government says doing this will cut down on the spread of bacteria that can make animals and people sick.
Heavy hitters from the beer industry have been included in hearings. They want the government to reconsider.
Recycling the grain brings in money for beer-makers. Using that grain helps ranchers because feed prices are three times higher than recycled grain. The cost could be passed on, though it’s not expected to be a huge increase.
WASHINGTON, June 28, 2013 –U.S. farmers successfully overcame a cold and wet early spring this year, planting 97.4 million acres of corn, up slightly from 2012, according to the Acreage report released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). This is the highest acreage planted to corn since 1936 and marks a fifth year in a row of corn acreage increases in the United States...
Note the phrase "successfully overcame a cold and wet early spring", meaning that a good amount was planted late, which is contained in my above Clear fact #2: The propane was used to dry large amounts of green, immature & wet corn, generated by late plantings.
Note also that MY facts on this came directly from the USDA website, not some specious, unattributed, unlinked "Acres planed 2013: 95 Million acres, USDA" posting.
Balding_Eagle is CLEARLY wrong, but he just won't quit.
Its my guess Balding_Eagle is involved in the farm industry and has rationalized the entire ethanol fiasco because he’s making boatloads of money.
I grew up in farm country and know farming is a tough business. The government has leverage the difficulty and used subsidies to gain control of the industry and all the people associated with it. Many farmers entire life is based on what the govt will or won’t pay, subsidies, pay for leaving land idle, tarrifs and so forth.
Ethanol is just the next step. Someone had the 10% ethanol bill in their back pocket and saw an opportunity to make big bucks regardless of the impact on the country.
The science is simple. Ethanol has less energy than gasoline. Nothing is going to change the chemistry. Ethanol might make sense if you weren’t using food and had a shortage of oil.
As it is it takes more gas to produce ethanol than is output as a final product. Then they mix it with gas which reduces efficiency resulting in yet more gas being required to produce the same result. Not to mention the millions of cars and other products which have been damaged by ethanol.
So no he won’t quit. He’s making too much easy money to stop defending this house of cards.
Same here. Half my wife's family are farmers.
He's talking his book.
The science is simple. Ethanol has less energy than gasoline. Nothing is going to change the chemistry. Ethanol might make sense if you weren’t using food and had a shortage of oil.
As it is it takes more gas to produce ethanol than is output as a final product. Then they mix it with gas which reduces efficiency resulting in yet more gas being required to produce the same result. Not to mention the millions of cars and other products which have been damaged by ethanol.
An explanation so simple, an economic caveman like President MomJeans can understand it.
You seem to feel that the more that you post, the more that it will change your opinion into facts.
Are your words some sort of "philosophers' stone" of the Internet?
**snicker**
Didn’t like that chart, did you.
To those of us who have a 40+ year history of analyzing USDA numbers...............well we just laugh at how easily you were duped.
You were right, driftdiver - he's making boatloads of money off ethanol. He's talking his book, all day long.
well we just laugh at how easily you were duped.
Take it up with the USDA news office. Either their news release was wrong, or their numbers are wrong. OR BOTH.
**snicker**
We’ve seen numerous instances these last few years of govt agencies publishing fake numbers to further their agenda.
When the Soviets did it we called it propaganda among other things.
Your numbers were the market manipulation numbers for the USDA capitalist cronies Grasshopper. Everyone knew that they day they were released.
Why you were so foolish as to choose them is troubling.
I chose, and published, the real numbers.
Wisdom takes time, Grasshopper.
You need to question the rest of your information, it is more than a little suspect.
This fakery has gone on for more than my 40 years of involvement. One has to know when the time is that they have no other option than to release accurate information.
Notice the huge difference. Why the difference is subject to argument, but the USDA is a real problem for farmers.
Oh, Good God.
What an effing clown. "The USDA numbers are right when I post charts that support my money-making ethanol scheme, but the USDA numbers are wrong when they don't support my money-making ethanol scheme."
We get it, Balding_Clown. You're making big money from ethanol. Our small engines and propane bills thank you.
Don't presume to lecture me on the government, n00b.
Serenity my dear Grasshopper. Breath deep.
And check your other information, you’ll find it’s it’s all foo-foo too.
Or don’t. Additional beatings are free if I’m not otherwise occupied.
You're wrong, and you're a clown.
Ethanol is Statism writ large.
Anytime you need further schooling, young Balding_Clown, just give me a shout-out.
Bwahahaha.
Reduced to ad homonym attacks.
Bwahahaha
WASHINGTON, June 28, 2013 –U.S. farmers successfully overcame a cold and wet early spring this year, planting 97.4 million acres of corn, up slightly from 2012, according to the Acreage report released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). This is the highest acreage planted to corn since 1936 and marks a fifth year in a row of corn acreage increases in the United States...
Note the phrase "successfully overcame a cold and wet early spring", meaning that a good amount was planted late, which is contained in my above Clear fact #2: The propane was used to dry large amounts of green, immature & wet corn, generated by late plantings.
I call the GOPe Moderate Democrats, because they aren’t Republicans.
I didn't know that the EPA had a hand in it.
I see that the ethanol shills will go to any length to to shout down their opponents, even on Free Republic.
I remember vermin like the ethanol shill, back in the day. Keep up the good work, and thanks again! People will be hearing about this skullduggery.
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