I was reading an interesting article in Top Producer that shed some light on the future of corn production. It was talking about the infrastructure changes that will be needed if we increase the bushels per acre of corn we are raising. If production is to double using 2007 acres that would mean about 12 billion more bushels. Just to get the corn out of the field would require 10million more trips using average sized trucks. It would also take 240,000 more 50,000 bushel bins to store the crop. That would put a pretty big strain on township and county roads. How will they handle that? Will land values rise enough so that tax money generated can be used to updates roads and bridges? Will farmers have to pay an increased license fee to haul their product? This is something to think about. In order to feed the View this photo world population by 2025 food production will have to double.

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