I mentioned yesterday that Ukraine is a prime vendor of wheat, serving as a breadbasket to the world.
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And, this is one of our better ones?
Yesterday, I spoke about our most endangered aquifers. But, almost every one of our aquifers is in trouble- the sources of the bulk of our drinking water.
Farmer John is a different Cat, nowadays
Driverless cars. Actually, I’m not going to talk about them for passenger transport. But, consider what that technology can do (and already does) for agriculture.
It’s way more than popcorn!
I’ve written a lot about ethanol for our fuel supply- both good and bad. (Ethanol as fuel stock and how the business case is provided, among others- check for ‘ethanol’ in the search at the right.) And, now that fuel demand is down, it’s not surprising that the stipulation that gasoline be augmented by ethanol is creating lots of problems. (For example, ethanol production is about 13.2 billion gallons- which is about 10% of the US petroleum production. With the drought, and the requirement that 14 billion gallons be combined this year, and lower gasoline demand, something has got to give.) So, it’s not surprising that the ethanol producers are looking at other things into which they can convert their corn, to insure the high returns (i.e., prices) they yield.