Fatal, Yehushua S.; Thurman, Walter N. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 46 (2014) 02
U.S. ethanol production capacity increased more than threefold between 2002 and 2008. We study the effect of this … growth on corn acreage. Connecting annual changes in county-level corn acreage to changes in ethanol plant capacities, we … 500 acres and to increase acreage in surrounding counties up to almost 300 miles away. All ethanol plants are estimated to …