> Your information while it may be
> from the USDA, its outdated
Please review the chart again (link below).
How can a chart that is updated monthly, and clearly says "Updated April
2014" be outdated in April 2014?
(Note that this is the same link I provided before.)
Better yet, it will also be up-to-date next month, and every month
thereafter!
http://www.ers.usda.gov/ersDownloadHandler.ashx?file=/media/521847/cornuse.j
pg
http://tinyurl.com/qxbafnn
> and very misleading, as you don't
> know how to read it.
You'll have to explain the specifics of how I "don't know how to read it".
The chart is very simple.
The chart clearly labels each of three colors as "other", "fuel", and
"food".
It has a scale that starts at zero, and tops out at 12.5 billion bushels.
The yellow part of the graph is the "fuel" use, and it seems to currently
range from 5 billion to 11 billion bushels. The blue part is the "food"
use, which ranges from 0 to 5 billion bushels. Going backwards, one can see
that the yellow portion got progressively bigger every year from 1980 on,
accelerating right about the time that the subsidies became more lucrative.
Just as the yellow part grew much larger, the blue part got smaller.
> Did you report the drop in
> Bean and wheat acres?
> Did you report the price
> spike in beans due to lost
> acres? Did you report the
> drop in price and the projected
> acres for this year?
I never even mentioned "acres" or "prices", nor did the USDA chart, but it
should be clear that the growth in the number of bushels could not have come
only from increased yields on the same acreage, so the growth in "corn for
fuel" certainly did take acreage away from more than just "corn for food".
Other food crops also lost acreage, as they clearly were also replaced by
corn for fuel.
While everyone can see that the additional bushels of "corn for fuel" did
not significantly reduce the bushels of "corn for food" until 2004, one can
see from the chart that we still have not yet regained the number of bushels
of corn for food that were produced in 2004.
> No. you chose to cherry pick the data.
I merely pointed to an authoritative USDA chart. Precisely how is that
"cherry picking"?
> I live here. I spent 20 years designing
> and building combines for CNH and
> AGCO... I do know a bit about farming... Just a wee bit
Working for a farm equipment manufacturer is not "farming".
Likewise, running a punch press making hive tools isn't "beekeeping".
I farmed 450 acres for years, so I actually did farm with my own two hands,
while also keeping bees.
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