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An alternative to specialty crops is regular crops but higher up the value-add chain. Corn -> corn mash -> fermented corn mash -> ethanol -> bourbon -> aged bo
by rsync 12y ago
An alternative to specialty crops is regular crops but higher up the value-add chain.
Corn -> corn mash -> fermented corn mash -> ethanol -> bourbon -> aged bourbon
40 acres of corn gets you nowhere. 40 acres of corn converted to bourbon gets you generational wealth.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoHa! This is what all Appalachian farmers did in the 1700's, with no roads and long distances to market. They converted corn to whiskey, concentrating the wealth. It was George Washington that ruined that with his regressive Whiskey Tax. Our modern caricature of the moonshining mountain yokel was created way back then, to marginalize poor farmers.