{"id":56,"date":"2008-06-16T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T09:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2008-06-16T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T09:07:39","slug":"flooding-hits-us-corn-crop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Flooding hits US corn crop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Calibri;\">Corn prices approached $8\/bushel on Friday forcing ethanol plants to evaluate operations.<!--more--><\/span><\/span><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Calibri;\">\u00a0Analysts forecast 2-5 billion gallons of ethanol to go off line.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>More importantly food &amp; feed <span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>production will be hit. Soft commodities in general will likely face record prices in the coming year. Governments, especially the US, will be forced to re-evaluate the wisdom of biofuel targets based on food crops. Investment in to 2<sup>nd<\/sup> generation will be ramped up and the search for a pressure release on food crops will be sought. <span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corn prices approached $8\/bushel on Friday forcing ethanol plants to evaluate operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardy-brown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}