Aaron Woell, last week you dug yourself a mighty deep grave saying what you did in a strong agricultural community. This week, you have begun to bury yourself in that mighty deep grave and I can guarantee that there are several hundred ag students on this campus that would love to help shovel the dirt.

I really don’t care where you got your 12-year-old numbers from, here’s some of my own.

Since getting ethanol in our farm barrel last summer, we did our own tests on economy and power since we own a dynometer that is used to check power. Economy increased 5 percent in our gas pickups and 3 percent in our gas farm tractors.

There was also a 4.33 percent increase in power in our farm tractors.

Where your numbers come from also bother me. The USDA, I have lost complete faith in a long time ago, they don’t have a clue. As for the other research, where did they get their funding from – a large oil company, perhaps?

You are attacking a potential market for a product that is produced on struggling family farms that are trying to scratch out a living during the current crisis. What do you think about that?

It doesn’t matter what you think because for many of us students, those struggling farmers are our parents trying their hardest and pay for a good education for their sons and daughters because there is nearly no future for them on the home farm.

Just one more thing. Us small farmers who don’t know any better have a better beat on things than idiots like you think so much that it is almost scary.

Michael Peiffer

Junior

Agricultural education