Fatal, Yehushua S.; Thurman, Walter N. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 46 (2014) 02
growth on corn acreage. Connecting annual changes in county-level corn acreage to changes in ethanol plant capacities, we …U.S. ethanol production capacity increased more than threefold between 2002 and 2008. We study the effect of this … find a positive effect on planted corn. The building of a typical plant is estimated to increase corn in the county by over …