He said he needs more money from his cocoa crop to help feed his family.

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West Fertilizer is owned by Donald Adair, a fixture in the West, Tx. community who also owns Adair Grain and Adair Farms, which comprises crop production and cattle feed lots.

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Still, the group this week joined other animal producers in calling for a reduction in corn ethanol production mandates, saying pricing and availability of corn for feed is threatened by the combination of a small corn crop this year and the government mandate, which will use about four of every 10 bushels of corn.

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Filburn, a hapless Ohio farmer was ordered to destroy his wheat crop, which he grew on his own property to feed his own chickens, because it violated a federal law designed to limit wheat production and drive up prices.

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The farm said it was having to buy in the extra feed because of the the poor quality of last year's home-grown silage crop.

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Rep. Virginia Foxx, a North Carolina Republican, says giving up 20 percent of America's corn crop to make ethanol has unintended consequences, like spiking the cost of livestock feed.

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