Ask and I shall receive. I just found the answer to my question. This article at msn.com explains it all.

Link below if anyone is interested.

Here is a link that might be useful: How ethanol bites you in the wallet

I must be lucky, still paying $9 for a 50lb bag of SBM.

I'm still paying $8.20 for SBM. It stayed the same for at least a year.

Yup.

Actually, I just spoke with a grass-seed farmer today. He reports that a lot of the farms in Oregon and Washington that normally grow grass seed have switched to corn because of better prices (because of ethanol).

I would imagine that is the same for grains too. Just about anybody who can grow corn is doing so. Most of that corn is going to ethanol plants.

Has anyone else seen this:

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/798/

The state of Georgia just granted Range Fuels a permit to create the first cellulosic ethanol plant in America.

Cellulosic ethanol is ethanol that comes from cellulose instead of sugar. This is good because most plants don't have a lot of sugar, but all plants have lots of cellulose. So, instead of using food crops, (like corn and sugar cane which have lots of sugar) to create fuel, we can use any crops, like mown grass clippings, fallen tree limbs or corn stalks (instead of corn ears) to create ethanol.

I must have gotten a real good deal. Living in more rural area I just bought a 100lb bag of sbm for 15.

SBM 10.65/50 lbs
Corn Meal 11.00 /50 lbs (Ground as I wait....)
Cracked Corn 6.95/50 lbs