[frankthetank]

According to this dude

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')Chris Hurt, Purdue University agricultural economist, is predicting that corn prices will eclipse $3 a bushel for the 2007 marketing year and could threaten the 1995 record of $3.24 a bushel.

"In terms of acreage, I've been suggesting that we may have to push acreage up to 88 million to 89 million acres of corn," Hurt said Monday in a statement. "That would be a 10 million-acre increase from 2006 and would put us at the highest acreage planted to corn in the United States since 1946. We'd be looking at a 60-year phenomenon."

[Dreamtwister]

Yeah, now all we need is 1 really damp silking season and we've got a new-age potato famine on our hands.

[joewp]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', '
')So where do you find the extra acreage?

[Dreamtwister]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('joewp', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', '
')So where do you find the extra acreage?

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'Y')eah, now all we need is 1 really damp silking season and we've got a new-age potato famine on our hands.

[Atlantean_Relic]

Even If I didn't know that this ethanol thing wasn't going anywhere, the idea of burning food fundamentally bugs me.

[Dreamtwister]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR', 'I')'ve been saying for a while now, its a manufactured die off that we're attempting here. Drive down the number of days of grain supply in storage, start burning as much as you can into Ethanol, then wait for nature to deliver the inevitable coup de grac with some blight or just the wrong weather at the wrong time, and splat down to zero grain; developed countries and the rich within the developing world will pounce on available supplies, and the remainder... well.... so sorry.

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Atlantean_Relic', 'E')ven If I didn't know that this ethanol thing wasn't going anywhere, the idea of burning food fundamentally bugs me.

[joewp]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('joewp', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', '
')So where do you find the extra acreage?

[EnergyHog]

I planted two rows of corn in my front yard this past summer. I live in a fairly large city but it's a hippy town so I actually got some compliments. I'm sure the GOP (they live next door) hated it and that made the corn that much sweeter!

[frankthetank]

I'm just trying to figure out where they come up with all this magical acreage. Around southwest WI (corn growing region/soybeans too) i see corn fields turning into developments...not the other way around. Maybe the vacant field that use to be walmart can be used to grow corn...? (they built 2 superwalmarts to replace it! yeah! not).

[Dreamtwister]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('joewp', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('joewp', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', '
')So where do you find the extra acreage?

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')'m just trying to figure out where they come up with all this magical acreage. Around southwest WI (corn growing region/soybeans too) i see corn fields turning into developments...not the other way around. Maybe the vacant field that use to be walmart can be used to grow corn...? (they built 2 superwalmarts to replace it! yeah! not).

[joewp]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', '
')No, but they quite literally threw money at the water, and land rose up from the depths. That...I guess you could call it an island, I don't really know... didn't exist at all until about 3 years ago. It's completely artificial.

[coyote]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'N')o, but they quite literally threw money at the water, and land rose up from the depths.

[frankthetank]

Oh this is good...check this find out...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')INGAPORE (Dow Jones)--Wheat output globally may recover in 2007 as
disappointing harvests in 2006 may drive prices higher, leading to farmers
planting more wheat, the Economist Intelligence Unit, the business information
arm of The Economist group, said in a press statement Tuesday.

The complete report, of which the press statement is a summary, is called
"World Commodity Forecasts: Food, Feedstuffs and Beverages November 2006."

The EIU statement gave a brief analysis of the supply and demand situation
for a variety of commodities in 2007.

It said corn consumption is overtaking supply and the U.S. - the world's
biggest corn producer - will need an "exceptionally big" crop next year to meet
its export and domestic demands.

For rice, the EIU foresees a balance in demand and supply through 2007, while
for edible oils, it foresees a gradual increase in prices.

It said that while edible oil demand for biodiesel grabbed headlines around
the world, the biggest consumer of edible oil is still the food market.

[Heineken]

We'd better start getting used to the idea of paying $10 for a box of cornflakes.

[FairMaiden]

Here is another wheat production story: earth policy institute

Which fits in nicely with this consumer report: E85 vehicles

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'W')e'd better start getting used to the idea of paying $10 for a box of cornflakes.

[Dreamtwister]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('joewp', 'I')'m sure a lot of that land was spare sand dunes they have in the inland desert.