RFA Factsheet: Ethanol and the U.S. Corn Crop

GrainNet.com
Date Posted: September 11, 2008

The American farmer and the American ethanol producer have been under attack, criticized for seeking to capitalize on the productivity and bounty of American agriculture to help solve this nation’s energy crisis.

In particular, critics often misrepresent the impact of ethanol production on American corn and total grain supplies, contorting facts and reporting statistics completely out of context.
In advance of the USDA’s September World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report due out on Friday, September 12, the RFA has put together the following facts and figures that put the debate about how America uses its corn supplies in proper context.

As the size of the corn crop grows, so too do its uses.

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