On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:17:03 GMT, Kyler Laird
wrote:

Only when the corn is heavily subsidized. A farmer cannot make a profit
from selling the corn outright to an ethanol producer.

Uh...you want to give some details there? Ethanol plants pay about (but
typically *slightly* more) what local grain elevators pay.

The subsidy goes to the ethanol producer, primarily Archer Daniels
Midland.

(The corn is subsidized too, of course, but no more for ethanol than
for cornflakes


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