The US Censusâ âraceâ question will continue to become ever-more meaningless as long as it attempts to separate and group things in ways that have little or no meaning. There is no such race as âWhiteâ or âHispanic.â Hispanic is a cultural identification; one may be Hispanic and Bback, Asian, etc.
Using todays corn closing here in my area I would only pay $.05 per pound for dry ear corn. Don't worry how many bushels are in the wagon use only weights from a scale. For years the standard has been 70 lbs ear corn = 1 bushel of shell corn. But 2 years ago I bought a variety from a neighbor that ended up 68# .
Corn prices will rise as planted acreage declines from 90.9 million acres this year to 89.0 million acres in 2024. The average farm price per bushel this year is forecast at $3.50, rising slowly to $3.75 in 2024. The feed-price ratio of beef to corn also rises, from 34.2 this year to 42.2 in 2014. The USDAâs forecast for corn used to produce ethanol is nearly flat, rising from 5.15 billion bushels this year to 5.20 billion bushels in 2024.