Commodity Background
On average in the U.S., about 45 percent of corn is used for animal feed, 44 percent is turned into ethanol, and 10 percent is used as food.
My point ... with the recession people will travel much less after the US election because fuel prices will shoot way high. So the article worrying about people starving because of the corn crop is BS. Actually in my little part of the world, our "eating corn" was the best in years, possibly because we had so much less rain! Had some last night still tasty and tender late September.