> and some events at harvest time can wipe out crops entirely! And that swings both ways. Last year, with the stars aligning just right, the corn yields around

> and some events at harvest time can wipe out crops entirely! And that swings both ways. Last year, with the stars aligning just right, the corn yields around here were ~100 bushels per acre higher than even our most optimistic pre-harvest estimates. That is an incredible amount of unexpected extra product. Corn especially has a huge, unpredictable yield band. Which, of course, is exactly why we started producing corn-based ethanol. To buffer the periods of uncontrollable excess — where the previous alternative was to see it rot away.