Cherry Vanilla or Ethanol

July 15, 2007 / by JOEZsREPUBLICANPAGE




Ice-cream makers frozen out as corn price risesSuzy Jagger and Carl Mortished
What’s the connection between ethanol, the biofuel produced from corn, and a cherry vanilla ice-cream?

Answer: the first is responsible for pushing up the price of the other.

This month, the price of milk in the United States surged to a near-record in part because of the increasing costs of feeding a dairy herd. The corn feed used to feed cattle has almost doubled in price in a year as demand has grown for the grain to produce ethanol.

Christina Seid, whose family have been making ice-cream at the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory for 28 years, said yesterday that she expected to have to raise her prices, along with all competitors in the short term. “We are holding out as long as we can, but prices will rise,” Ms Seid said.

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Amy Green’s Ivanna Cone ice-cream emporium in Lincoln, Nebraska, has already raised its prices for a small cone to $3.50 before tax, up from $2.95 a few months ago. She also estimates that she is paying $150 more a week



>> PLEASE GOD DON'T LET THEM TAKE MY ICE CREAM <<

9 comments on Cherry Vanilla or Ethanol

  • APOLITICALNUT said 1 years ago
    [SMILE] Joe, I will have a post "Our Global Economy" which has another explanation why milk prices have risen. Drought in Australia,
  • JOEZsREPUBLICANPAGE said 1 years ago
    [OHMY]I don't believe the "drought in Australia" has that much to do with the price of "corn" ,, their have been droughts around the world for years and years, and we have fed the hungry with supplies from our grain storage surplus ,, that's why we buy the excesses from the farmers in the good times , the biggest reason the price of corn has increased so much is very simple ("Archer Daniels Midland")[MAD][MAD][THUMBUP][THUMBUP]
  • moonpi said 1 years ago
    Yes, and if ethanol is bringing a higher price than the ice cream cow then the competition will also drive up the cost of producing one banana ice cream cone. Or, a realistic view of 2,562,000 barrels per day-- of crude oil worth of ethanol replacement for just one company, could really, really bite into the competition with food. Even if it is only a few cents per acre of what is usually used as silage or compost to put back into the soil. All that would have to be replaced by something else too. I personally don't think that any idea that competes with food is a very good one. Solar is a better solution to me personally and would put it in your hands in a bigger way concerning cost. The sun is up everyday. If you can store the energy, might make ice cream safe to our children for years to come. If a kid can't have ice cream.. whoa! Nelly! The tears... And I can not even count the number of times I have bought ice cream from Austria, I mean Austrailia!
    I had thought that it might not be that big a deal to use ethanol, but it probably is still not a good idea.. you could have a drought or any kind of anything...disaster... The more I think about it, it seems that the batteries that can store solar energy is likely the best option, but then I don't know the draw backs of solar batteries... if there are any.
  • JOEZsREPUBLICANPAGE said 1 years ago
    [SMILE] Excellent comment , if they want to make ethanol there are many other things to use that will not affect our food chain supply ,hydrogen would be a good source of fuel,, I want to be able to take my grandsons out to get an "ice cream cone" [THUMBUP][THUMBUP][THUMBUP]
  • ChihulahuaLover said 1 years ago
    [OHMY][HUH][OHMY][MAD][THUMBDOWN]

    Jenn
  • JOEZsREPUBLICANPAGE said 1 years ago
    [THUMBUP] That's my feeling also [THUMBUP]
  • ChihulahuaLover said 1 years ago
    [THUMBUP][THUMBUP]Yep
  • agnosticrepublican said 1 years ago
    Ethanol has nothing to do with the rising cost of milk or ice cream. You are from Iowa and should know that dairy cows seldom eat corn. They mainly eat grass and hay. Milk is rising because we are exporting more milk to Asia to make up for the Australian drought. But the price or use of corn has very little to do with the cost of dairy products. See my post, A Bumper Crop.
  • JOEZsREPUBLICANPAGE said 1 years ago
    [OHMY] We had three cows ,when I was growing up during WW2 and we fed them corn ,oats ,hay in the winter , and summer they grazed ,, the diaries also use corn syrup as a sweetener , so that adds to the cost , I'm not sure if the dairy farmers feed any corn to their herd but I'm sure they use some, of course one thing that would help would be to remove milk price supports[THUMBUP][THUMBUP][THUMBUP][ROLLEYES]

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