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Old 17-April-2008, 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Trebuchet View Post
In the US, ethanol is affecting nearly all agricultural products because land previously used for other crops is being converted to corn.
But; recently the news was talking about the corn acreage being down this year. So that wouldn't account for the recent rise in other crops.

I guess it could be that even if corn acreage is down, maybe other crops is "more down", and the ratio is even higher.

Or maybe other factors are just now catching up.
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