alt.energy.renewable

Dean Hoffman > wrote:
> calderhome@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Many bakeries in the USA are going out of business because they cannot
>> afford to buy flour at today's high prices. Too many wheat farmers
>> have switched to growing corn for ethanol. By May US wheat supplies
>> will be lower than any time since 1948.
>
> Funny thing about that. The USDA thinks wheat plantings were up
> last year. http://tinyurl.com/2aymkd
> A lot of wheat ground went into the Conservation Reserve Program
> according to this: http://tinyurl.com/3aen2r
> One more thing to think about. A bushel of wheat can make about 70
> loaves of white bread and 95 loaves of wheat bread. That puts the
> value of the wheat in a loaf at under 30¢ even with wheat at $20/bushel.
> Wheat is back at around $11/bushel, I think. http://tinyurl.com/2d2k64

Yes, as for wheat, there is no question that the cost of grain is
fractional in this country. How much oil goes into making and delivering
that bread would require some kind of study. But what is clear is that
the cost of food is inflating at a rate that has impact. calderhome is
clearly on an agenda rant. He is claiming a truth where it may really
lie in that there is a world of billions of people demanding other than
what they demanded a few years ago. And, that the cost of all resources
that food resources depend on are rising.

U.S. Corn, who knows without a contemporary study.

Best, Dan.\