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Corn cobs in ethanol prodiction

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keh

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Article in Progressive Farmer. Ethanol plants looking into using cobs as fuel in the process and to make ethanol from the cobs. My question is, how do they plan for farmers to harvest the cobs? Presently combines chop up the cobs in the threshing process and throw them on the ground. Are they planning for farmers to go to pickers and haul ear corn to the plant? Big increase in transportation costs due to bulk if they do.

KEH
 
Or how about just take the lazy white people on generations of welfare and put them to work.
 
So then it would take a decade and a judicial order to get your fied picked ? Then they win the lawyer lottery when they sue you for carpal tunnel injury?
 
If the cobs develop a market value I'm sure a "second tank" and additional separators will be retrofitted to all modern combines in a season or two.

As for making the welfare bums work - some people must not be familiar with the way these oxygen thieves operate - death is preferable to working for a living.
 
At last, a market for the "cornless cob" variety that my grandfather developed in the '20s. Danged Sears & Roebuck catalog came along and squashed his dream. Now I can redeem him.
 
We have an Ethanol Plant here in S. D. burning scrap ground wood in it's boilers, also hooked up to landfill and burning methane from it.
 
Great statement just where will you get a corncob as everyone uses a combine to harvest the corn. So little is picked with a picker that getting cobs just aint going to happen. Silly people writing an article just dont know what they are talking about then those who read dont know whats going on and believe the article.
 
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