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Ah, ok, I get what you're saying now. Thanks for the clarification and insight into this data. USDA site is confusing when it says "nearly 45 percent of total c
by vel0city 9mo ago
Ah, ok, I get what you're saying now. Thanks for the clarification and insight into this data. USDA site is confusing when it says "nearly 45 percent of total corn use".
Still, one wonders if we'd bother with so much of our fields going to grow corn if the main use was just DDGS. I wonder how the economics of everything else in the corn industry would change if we stopped requiring E10.
- bryanlarsen 9mo agoCorn would be grown for animal feed even if we weren't using it for ethanol. As an optimized C4 plant it's one of the most efficient plants in terms of converting sunlight to biomass; far more efficient than traditional animal foods like barley or oats. Sugarcane and algae are even more efficient but require growing conditions not available in the mid-west.