But for the handful of companies that make corn syrup, and the significantly larger number of farmers who grow the corn that gets ground and processed into the stuff, the corn syrup hysteria is no laughing matter.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then walking out to the rough ground where the biomass is growing (between the stream and the good soil reserved for corn) will tell the story much better than anything I can say in a meeting.
Administration officials announced initiatives yesterday to help advanced biofuels get off the ground, but they are going to need those and many more if they are going to compete with corn.