Food or Fuel? How will changes to ethanol subsidies affect food / fuel debate? Will cellulosic biomass like switchgrass ever work? This #AgChat conversation touches on one of the hot topics in agriculture.
- Is food vs fuel a moral, philosophical, or economic discussion?
- For the livestock producers. Do you feed Dry Distiller’s Grain (DDGs)? Pros and cons?
- What is the nutritional difference in DDGs & corn?
- Oil price does affect corn price, so how can corn growers say they are not in the food fuel debate?
- How will changes to ethanol subsidies affect this debate?
- Why should it matter what a farmer does with his or her crop if its the best decision for their business?
- Do you think Asia’s increase in meat consumption has likely led to shortages in corn supply as much as ethanol?
- Food v Fuel usually means corn. What about acres for cellulosic like switchgrass etc?
- What benefits has biofuels brought? Or via @MarieB41 R they even necessary since we have centuries of oil still?
- Does it always have to be ‘food versus fuel’. Instead of ‘either’ ‘or’, ‘and’?
- What is the one executable idea you’ll be working on from tonight’s #agchat?
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