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Originally Posted by Nobuddy
Yes, corn farming is subsidized. Like all farming. But nothing links those federal subsidies to selling their corn to an ethanol plant. Your relatives probably have contracts to deliver corn directly to an ethanol plant rather than just selling it on the commodity markets. That has no effect on their subsidy.
Everyone can believe what they want, I just wanted to correct some common falsehoods.
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Talked to a farmer friend back in April. He told me he receives zero subsidies on any crop he raises other than corn. As a matter of fact, he and several other farmers I know changed over from growing corn this season to soybeans. Commodity prices on corn weren’t enough to pay for the fuel and fertilizer.