Another Plant?!...The Rapid Expansion in the Ethanol Industry and its Effect All the Way to the Farm Gate

Joshua D. Roe, Robert W. Jolly and Robert N. Wisner

No 21066, 2006 Annual meeting, July 23-26, Long Beach, CA from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: The ethanol industry has expanded rapidly in recent times. Utilizing budgeted ethanol plant and farm models we determine the effect of this expansion on future corn acreage and farm incomes. Several scenarios are presented to determine the profitability of the ethanol industry at various input and output prices.

Keywords: Resource/Energy; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.21066

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