Gary Schnitkey, Darrel Good, and Paul Ellinger, «Crude Oil Price Variability and Its Impact
on Break — Even Corn Prices,» Farm Business Management, 30 May 2007; 2006 grain used for ethanol from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS), Feed Grains Database, at www.ers.usda.gov, updated 28 September 2007; 2006 grain harvest from USDA,
Production, Supply and Distribution, electronic database at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 12 September 2007; 2008 ethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency
Agricultural Projections
Committee,
Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, February 2007).
Ralph Paige: Executive Director, Federation of Southern Cooperatives / Land Assistance Fund; served as presidential appointment to the 21st Century
Production Agriculture Commission; participates
on the Agriculture Policy Advisory
Committee for Trade; the Cooperative Development Foundation; and the National
Agricultural Research, Extension, Education & Economics Advisory Board.