It’s Time to Rethink America’s Corn System

It’s Time to Rethink America’s Corn System

First, an article from Scientific American:  http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-corn/

Second, the same corn (if need be) can be used for both food and other uses, often ethanol fuel production for our cars these days. Generally speaking there are better corn seed types for one use than the other, and to increase one use often means giving up something else in another area of use.

Of course other grains can be used, too. There is a lot of rice grown in America, for one example. And we have vast wheat fields grown by our farmers, too. Most flour in America comes from wheat these days, also. Now there are many other grain type crops, too. Soybeans come to mind.

But bottom line, we can still grow enough corn for food if we need to in 2015. Said even another way, we always must eat to live, and eating at a good price is important to so many. People have rioted over reductions in cooking fuel subsidies, for example.

Third, learn about “fractionation” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractionation). In a nutshell that is a method for dividing up the use of the corn we grow.

Fourth and last, here is a present day commercial sales pitch (link) which also has some interesting information in it:  http://www.didionmilling.com/  Said another way, try reading between the lines and make up your own mind about eating and food (including your cooking oil) and fuel for your Family and loved ones.

Once to prove I could do it, I made corn pone, also called at an earlier time Indian pone. For me, having some “fake” butter to put on it sure helped my eating it. Now I better know about why Jeremiah Johnson in one movie scene spit out the Indian pone his new “Flat Head” wife made, but also made his inherited kid eat it, saying “eat it boy, it’s good for you”.