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- From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
- Subject: Re: Alcohol fuels
- Message-ID: <viking.722577183@vincent2.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <28244@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.110122.12539@bnr.uk> <1992Nov20.180925.90657@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> <1992Nov23.152414.8927@rtsg.mot.com> <Stafford-231192123948@stafford.winona.msus.edu>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 03:53:03 GMT
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- Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (John Stafford) writes:
-
- >Right on. I'd be interested in the economics of corn growing given that
- >fertilizer is now a requisite for growing corn and fertilizer is a
- >petroleum product.
-
- Back home the only petroleum used was to power the John Deere.
- We let the pigs and cattle handle the rest of the conversion from corn
- and soybeans to fertilizer.
-
- > I'd like anyone who has romantic visions of farming
- >to drive across old rt 6 in Iowa. That grey, lifeless earth was once
- >vital soil. Now it is merely an inert matrix used to temporarily
- >hold fertilizer and moisture. The soil has long passed its lifetime.
- >It is already dead.
-
- And putting out 200 bushel per acre along what I see. While I
- agree that improper farming will essentially kill the soil for many
- years, the fact remains that proper farming need not decrease yields
- or harm the soil at all. Perhaps you drove along after harvest or
- shortly after planting?
-
- In case anybody is wondering, corn is piled in the streets
- around this state as we've not enough bin capacity to house it all.
- And this was not considered a particularly good growing season.
-
- < Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
- < ISU only censors what I read, not what I say. Don't blame them. >
- < "This isn't an answer, it's a pagan dance around a midnight fire >
- < written in intellectual runes." -- Rich Young >
-