Wow, have you seen the Price of corn!!!

[kroberts2131]

How long do those 40# bags of corn last before they go sour?

 

[dennishoddy]

If you keep them in a dry area, and don't stack them too high, they will last a long time. Bags have small holes for ventilation. I have bags of corn left in my barn from last year that are still good.
I typically buy in bulk, but had to supplement with a few bags toward late season.

 

[WhiteyMacD]

If you keep them in a dry area, and don't stack them too high, they will last a long time. Bags have small holes for ventilation. I have bags of corn left in my barn from last year that are still good.
I typically buy in bulk, but had to supplement with a few bags toward late season.

Yeah, we buy from coop and just divvy it up into 55gal FG containers. Pretty sure it will keep quite a while in them things.

 

[kroberts2131]

I knew Dennis would have the answer!

 

[Super Dave]

Whew! I thought it said "Wow! Have you seen the price of porn?"

As if the good stuff wasn't pricey enough!

 

[dennishoddy]

Yeah, we buy from coop and just divvy it up into 55gal FG containers. Pretty sure it will keep quite a while in them things.

Same here. Just don't seal up the drums. Moisture from the corn will cause it to spoil if the container can't breathe.
Our elevator piles the excess on a concrete floor. I'm thinking there won't be any excess this year.

 

[dennishoddy]

I knew Dennis would have the answer!

Trust me, my knowledge comes from mistakes made in the past. If its ever been done wrong, I've done it.

 

[Shadowrider]

Since 2005, more and more of the nation's field corn crop has gone to create ethanol. Fuel blenders are obliged under the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act to mix a certain amount of eligible biofuels into the gasoline they sell. The blenders receive a tax credit of 45 cents per gallon of ethanol.

"For corn-based biofuels such as ethanol, the current mandate (under EISA) is 12.6 billion gallons, which increases to 15 billion in 2015 and remains at that level,"

At this year's level, 39% of U.S. field corn is used to produce the gasoline substitute. A third of that comes back into the food supply as distillers' grains, a by-product of ethanol production, which can be added to animal feed, bringing the total down to 24%.

And to add a little insult to injury.......

Last week, "an unelected group of people" over at the Environmental Protection Agency revised our national energy policy, approving a new gasoline blend with up to 15% ethanol, known as E15, which may be available in pumps this summer. Currently, most gasoline sold in the U.S. is E10, containing a maximum of 10% ethanol.

It turns out, however, that the EPA never intended to slow its push for more ethanol production; in fact, it is required by law to increase ethanol use. The ethanol industry didn't need subsidies because it had something more valuable: legislation known as the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) that creates a guaranteed marketplace for ethanol. The EPA describes the history of the legislation:

Current levels of ethanol production are around 900,000 barrels per day, or 17 billion gallons per year. Thus, by law, ethanol production must double in the next decade, regardless of whether this is a sensible energy policy and regardless of the changing economics brought on by the fracking revolution that is supplying cheap natural gas and shale oil.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012...ucrats_approve_e15_ethanol.html#ixzz20egzwZ42

 

[Big House]

Have you seen all the CNG pumps going in the C-Stores? Guess who is helping pay to install them?

 

[Shadowrider]

Have you seen all the CNG pumps going in the C-Stores? Guess who is helping pay to install them?

Down her in the city I know the big new 7-11s are getting them. Loves Country Stores are putting in some too. Chesapeake is helping with the one's at the Loves stores.