There is no question: The answer is yes. Innovative, technology-savvy farmers are doing more with less - growing more corn every year on each acre of land, using less fertilizer and pesticide, cutting costs and getting more efficient. In fact, what has recently come to be characterized as the “food versus fuel” debate has always been a bogus one, based on the false premise that farmers can’t grow reasonably priced corn fast enough to meet demand from the factories sprouting around the nation that use it to make ethanol and feed people and animals.
Questions
- Are farmers producing enough corn to feed people and make ethanol?
- Where’s your proof that there is plenty of corn?
- Why was supply ever in doubt in the midst of the second-largest corn harvest in history?
- Isn’t this just some abstract, inside-the-Beltway policy wrangle? Why does all this matter to people like me?
- So corn is a hugely important crop. Why didn’t I know this until now?
- So how is this supposed to make food so expensive?
- But what about ethanol? Isn’t it inefficient and bad for the environment?
- Can corn farmers manage to keep setting records for production?
- How does growing all this corn affect the environment?
- What’s ahead for corn prices?
- What will that do to the supply?
- What about ethanol and the other uses of corn?
- So the future of corn looks good?
- Then what, if anything, must we do about corn?
Press Contacts
Mark Lambert
Coalition Director
Corn Farmers Coalition
[email protected]
632 Cepi Drive Chesterfield, MO 63005