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by gus_massa 120 days ago
I agree.

> We refine soybeans into ethanol [...]. We feed corn to cows [...]

Did you mix them? Soybeans have a lot of protein that is good to grow muscle in cows. Corn is mostly starch that is cheaper than protein and starch is made of sugar that is easy to split in ethanol.

Also, there are more productive and less productive farms. Here in Argentina some of them operate only when the price of soybean or corn is high.