He's getting creative with his wheat crop this spring to save on feed and fuel.

他将有创意地利用今年春季的小麦作物，以节约饲料和燃料。

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Ethanol currently accounts for just 8% of America's fuel for vehicles, but it consumes almost 40% of America's enormous maize crop.

目前，乙醇只占美国汽车燃料的8%，却消耗了美国巨大的玉米产量的40%。

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Besides extracting corn's starch content to be turned into fuel for cars, ethanol refineries convert the rest of the crop into distillers' grains.

除了提炼玉米淀粉用以制造汽车使用的乙醇外，乙醇精炼厂将作物的剩余部分转为转为酒糟谷。

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But instead of beer, he would brew ethanol, the crop-based fuel that suddenly has the U.S. in a froth.

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But instead of beer, he would brew ethanol, the crop-based fuel that suddenly has the nation in a froth.

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"There are implications to dedicating more and more crop land to fuel production rather than food production, " said Tyson Clocum of the consumer watchdog group Public Citizen.

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