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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 1393893" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>Up until recently, land grant universities have had a good name for providing concrete fact based information for people in agriculture. Sadly, I am afraid this is not always the case anymore as universities begin to chase funding and income. I witnessed this personally a few years ago when an representative from a university in Mississippi and two "salesmen" came to one of our agriculture meetings trying to sell us on biofuels. The scheme was that we could purchase enough sprigs of this super miscanthus grass to plant a quarter acre and from that we would be allowed to plant as much as 50 acres. The 50 acre deal was $20,000 for the sprigs but you could buy licenses for more acreage if you wanted. The university representative outlined how we would make $10,000/acre/year with absolutely no inputs other than having to cut and bale the grass.</p><p></p><p>They guaranteed that we could sell the bales to the methanol mill President Obama had constructed about 60 miles from us and they had a guy who had contracts guaranteeing the purchase of the grass.</p><p></p><p>The flaw in this was many. First of all, the whole thing was being propped up by subsidies. The second thing was this methanol mill was built using the same boilers and fermentation tanks Jimmy Carter built with taxpayer money back in his day. This plant failed so was scrapped and moved for this scheme. The folks at the ethanol plant made huge salaries until the plant was built and it started producing ethanol at levels far below what they had promised and it went belly up just like Carter's did. </p><p></p><p>I don't care what side of the isle you are on we all should be concerned when our land grant universities begin peddling snake oil just so they can be politically correct and for selfish gain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 1393893, member: 4362"] Up until recently, land grant universities have had a good name for providing concrete fact based information for people in agriculture. Sadly, I am afraid this is not always the case anymore as universities begin to chase funding and income. I witnessed this personally a few years ago when an representative from a university in Mississippi and two "salesmen" came to one of our agriculture meetings trying to sell us on biofuels. The scheme was that we could purchase enough sprigs of this super miscanthus grass to plant a quarter acre and from that we would be allowed to plant as much as 50 acres. The 50 acre deal was $20,000 for the sprigs but you could buy licenses for more acreage if you wanted. The university representative outlined how we would make $10,000/acre/year with absolutely no inputs other than having to cut and bale the grass. They guaranteed that we could sell the bales to the methanol mill President Obama had constructed about 60 miles from us and they had a guy who had contracts guaranteeing the purchase of the grass. The flaw in this was many. First of all, the whole thing was being propped up by subsidies. The second thing was this methanol mill was built using the same boilers and fermentation tanks Jimmy Carter built with taxpayer money back in his day. This plant failed so was scrapped and moved for this scheme. The folks at the ethanol plant made huge salaries until the plant was built and it started producing ethanol at levels far below what they had promised and it went belly up just like Carter's did. I don't care what side of the isle you are on we all should be concerned when our land grant universities begin peddling snake oil just so they can be politically correct and for selfish gain. [/QUOTE]
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