re: USACE Ruins One of the Best Farms in America

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BROffshoreTigerFan

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You know what you're talking about

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So, corn and soybeans cannot be grown indoors? Cannot be stacked and mass produced in an area not bigger than a full size garage?

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I don't see how it could be produced in the quantity that it is now. 200+ bushels an acre is a shitload, and there's a shitload of acres in nebraska. It may be plausible on paper, but I don't see how you could put it into practice on that scale.

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For food, or for ethanol for gasoline

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Both. Ethanol has alot to do with why farmers are subsidized so much to grow it. It's meant to be an incentive in alot of cases. Same thing with soybeans for biodiesel. There's a heavy reliance on high fructose corn syrup in almost all of today's processed foods. Corn is also the main ingredient in livestock feed for feedlots. The nation is dependent on corn at the moment and will be as long as the farmers can continue to shell it out in these kinda numbers.


You're right about the government being alot of the problem. We're trying to get to unicorn milk and rainbow stew with corn and soybeans.