Jerseyville,IL | Coup as always lately we are on the same page .
Every government program has been about making
Susie homemakers food bill and the producer just tolerant enough to
keep producing the base product its made from .
If food was priced the way it should be in relationship to the real world the percent of your
money you spend would be about 3 times current levels .
That would mess up a lot of peoples wants verses needs spending .
The US has about the cheapest food in the world and Susie homemaker & Joe 6 pack would have
a lot less toys if they lived with what food should cost.
If you took out government programs in 10 years the consumer would see major rises and falls in food cost.
At some point maybe this will happen when it does farmer / producers will get a little more respect and be valued more.
Most of the USA citizens would find it hard to feed themselves in the fashion that they current have if farmers had industrial
markets to sell the source product.
As to original poster in what world do we as producers owe the USA cheap food ?
The alcohol mandate was a clean air rule , not a use corn rule (and yes we as corn farmers benefited )
so take it away but remember the green's will be screaming for vast changes in the culture of the US.
I personally am tired of the USA thinking that they are owed CHEAP & ABUNDANT food.
Just my thoughts
JB
coup - 7/29/2012 06:34
Problem is with with grain prices , have been too cheap for too long.
Same with what consumes it, that turns grain into a food product.
Get Meat, Dairy, and Eggs, priced where they should be, would not be having these types of discussions.
The real problem that needs to be fixed, is prices that are way too cheap for what folks are putting in their belly.
Instead of attacking the E component of corn demand.
40% of the feed value is still available after you have taken a solid source of energy like corn and turned it into two products that have value to humanity.
Another thing that needs to be thrown into the equation, without Ethanol, is how many more acres of ground would need to be put back into hay production? If the DDG product was no longer available.
Edited by 5250JB 7/29/2012 09:49
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Ethanol is the problem
