DMincatter Farming Saturday, May 16,1992
Corn Prices Under Threat If Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. Lim
king ethanol’s role in the Clean Air
Act Amendments (CAAA) will
reduce ethanol demand, cut the
amount of corn needed for ethanol
production and, ultimately,
depress com prices, a representa
tive of the National Com Growers
Association (NCGA) told a House
Agriculture subcommittee.
‘This situation is especially dis
couraging for com farmers who
anticipated a significant new
market for their product and to the
rural communities that would gain
job opportunities through value
added products. But most impor
tant is the loss of clean air benefits
that can come from ethanol
blends,” said Missouri Com
Growers Association President
Byron Fink, who testified on
NCGA’s behalf.
He asked the committee to con
sider the following, while the
Environment Protection Agency
(EPA) develops final rules for the
CAAA reformulated gasoline
program (RFG).
• The loss of the reformulated
gasoline market would reduce the
price farmers receive for com by
an average 24 cents per bushel.
• The impact of lower com
prices would increase government
expenditures for feed grain support
programs by an average $1.9 bil
lion per year from 1992 through
2005.
• Farmer profitability would
suffer. Despite higher deficiency
payments to compensate for lower
prices, net returns would be
reduced by the difference between
actual production and production
eligible for program payments.
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UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Penn State’s Haller
Livestock-Forage Farm has been
the site of many innovative pasture
research projects over the years,
and 1992 is no exception.
Interested groups arc invited to
arrange tours of the facility,
located near the University Park
Airport between State College and
Bellefonte.
“We’re in the final phase of a
three-year project to compare
grazing systems of different inten
sities including systems where
animals are moved to different
pastures daily, weekly, or month
ly,” said Dr. Lowell L. Wilson,
professor of animal science in
Penn State’s College of Agricul
• The U.S. economy would suf
fer. The reduced value of com out
put alone would cost the nation’s
economy $5.6 billion per year in
lower gross output. Total employ
ment in the nation’s economy
would be reduced by 134,694 jobs
each year between 1992 and 2005.
Since 1979, ethanol production
in the U.S. has increased steadily.
tural Sciences.
“We’ve seen several advantages
of shorter grazing durations,
including increased animal pro
duction per acre, better sheep per
formance when sheep and cattle
are grazed together, and several
other interesting observations.”
Because of the Cairn’s research
nature, 12 subfarms have been
developed to allow accurate com
parisons of the different manage
ment systems. The need for effec
tive but inexpensive fencing sys
tems to keep animals on their
assigned pastures prompted farm
managers to design and install
state-of-the-art fencing and water
ing equipment
“One experimental grazing sys-
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Limits Ethanol Use
In 1991, an estimated 390 million
bushels of com were converted to
fuel ethanol. With the passage of
the 1990 CAAA, NCGA antici
pated a greatly enhanced market
forethanol blends. Com utilization
for ethanol production would more
than double by 1995 because of the
oxygenated fuel and reformulated
gasoline program.
Of Research Farm
tern tested this year was pasturing
different combinations of lives
tock,” Wilson said. ‘Tor instance,
beef cows with calves and ewes
with lambs are grazed on separate
pastures, and then both are grazed
on the same pasture
simultaneously.”
The farm’s beef cow herd is
crossbred Angus/Simmental/
Charolais and was started 20 years
ago. “The cows are bred artificial
ly using commercially available
bulls,” Wilson said. “Tlie 205-day
adjusted weaning weights of the
herd range from 575 to 675 pound
s.” The farm’s sheep are from the
dairy and animal science depart
ment’s commercial and purebred
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Critics claim ethanol increases
some precursors to ozone. Howev
er, there is competent scientific
evidence that has been accepted by
EPA and Congress that additional
evaporative emissions from etha
nol blends do not contribute to
ozone formation given the lower
reactivity of those emissions and
considering the reduction in tail
pipe emissions.
ewe flocks.
The farm’s research and demon
stration projects make it popular
with visitors. According to Peter
LeVan, research assistant, and
Richard Todd, research aide, more
than 500 people have visited the
farm to see the fencing and water
ing systems, to observe the selec
tion and breeding methods used in
the beef herd, and to learn more
about the efficiency of different
grazing management systems.
Tours of the Haller Farm can be
arranged by contacting Dr. Lowell
L. Wilson, 324 Henning Building,
The Pennsylvania State Universi
ty, University Park, PA 16802,
(814) 863-3659.
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