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These innovations created spectacular crops. Since 1940 the American wheat yield per acre has more than doubled, from 15.3 bu. to 34.2 bu., and the corn output has almost quadrupled, from 28.4 bu. to 109.2 bu. Soybeans, which grow lavishly in the same weather and soil conditions as corn, expanded spectacularly. Production increased from 555 million bu. in 1960 to 2.2 billion bu. last year. While a Soviet farmer grows 45 bu. of corn an acre, his American counterpart produces...
...time to satisfy a meat-hungry world. More affluent and more demanding consumers around the globe wanted beef, pork and poultry rather than simply bread and cereals. As a result, the vast majority of American agricultural production is for animal rather than human consumption. Ninety percent of the corn crop is fed to livestock, while soybeans are the largest single source of protein for animals...
...Putting corn in the tank...
...more oil. Brazil, for example, expects all of its citizens to be driving on gasohol with a 4-to-1 mix by the end of 1980, at a saving of about $500 million on its oil import bill. Moonshiners can distill a lower proof ethanol from such materials as corn, sugar cane, potato peelings, even garbage or grass. Says Victor Ray, an alcohol expert at the National Farmers Union "It is about as complicated as making bread. We tell farmers that if they cannot do it, their wives certainly...
...companies to gasohol remains mixed. Exxon has refused to let its credit card be used to buy gasohol. Texaco, by contrast, is expanding its network of gasohol pumps, from 600 to 1,100 this spring, and is studying a joint project with CPC International, the former Corn Products Refining Company, to make ethanol. The largest manufacturer of the additive, Archer Daniels Midland, has increased annual output at its Decatur, Ill., plant from 5 million to 55 million gal. in less than two years...