Charles Linder wrote: "Nonsense.  Pure nonsense.  The number of acres in corn as changed VERY
little in the last few years.  And will change even less this year.  Ethonol
is now being looked at by other crops,  Corn after corn is bad,  and the
bean market is higher again."

I was talking to a Dairy Farmer and FSA Agent one time this last Summer about bees and dairy farms not pasturing cows like they used to therefore the lack of fields of clover. I asked him how much more corn is being planted in St. Lawrence County,NY now compared to when he started farming. He said "None." I was shocked. Especially since he had just been in conversation w/ some other guys about so and so planting new fields just recently tiled which had been unworkable before being too wet.

So here is Charles pretty much saying the same thing? What's the story? Why are farmers planting marginally workable land if not to plant more? If they are planting different land now, what is being done w/ previously planted land? Cows aren't grazing on it?

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