From the National Corn Growers Association:
About 8 percent of the weight in a box of corn flakes is corn. Less than 5
percent of the purchase price reflects the corn price. The remainder of the
cost is in packaging and advertising.
From the Ohio Corn Growers:
Corn growers in Ohio rallied recently to get the word out on the true cost
impact of rising corn prices. In this media report, there were a number of
startling facts concerning the true impact on food costs.
"Only 3 cents of corn goes into a box of cereal," "But the cost of a box of
corn flakes is so high because of marketing and transportation costs. Same
with a bag of corn chips."
Corn prices are up about 33 percent from where they were a year ago, but the
impact of that price rise is a much smaller part of food cost increases than
is being reported
"Plain and simple, corn prices are not the sole reason, or even the major
reason for higher prices in the grocery aisle today,"
"Corn is part of a portion of food products," ... "And it is only a small
part of those foods where it is included. A large portion of food price
increases come from foods that don't contain corn including fish, fruits and
vegetables."
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mac Dearman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:08 AM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] DC power suggestions
Go to www.raleybros.com (about 10 miles from my home) when the home page
comes up just keep refreshing your browser to change the pics displayed.
All
of the elevators are already running over, the temporary ground storage
bins
are full and now all the elevators around here are just dumping it on the
ground in huge piles. All the river port facilities are backed up for
miles
with grain trucks trying to haul it out of here and the railroad
facilities
can't get enough grain cars in to haul it all out of here.
Corn flakes ought to be .20 cents a box!
Mac
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mike Hammett
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 8:21 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] DC power suggestions
Wow, you learn something every day. What I've learned today is that
down
south harvests corn significantly earlier than we do in the corn belt.
;-)
What I've wanted to do, but have been so far unable to do is to have a
power
source (be it a 120 vAC charger, solar cells, wind turbine, etc.)
charge an
array of batteries (the guys at Mr. Solar said that I should use 48 vDC
for
the DC systems), and then have a bunch of power supplies that use 48
vDC as
the source. I have a PC based MT for my AP and an Orthogon Gemini on
my
primary tower. I can source 48 vDC power supplies for both.
-----
Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mac Dearman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:50 AM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] DC power suggestions
>
> I have an 80' Rohn 25G tower on top of a 110' concrete grain
elevator.
> This
> elevators power is giving me fits as they are flipping breakers on
and off
> as they are in full swing with all the corn coming in right now out
of the
> fields. I do have everything on UPS's, but need to move up the ranks
for
> longer run times to 4 larger marine batteries to accomplish longer
run
> times
> when the breakers are flipped off.
>
> Here is my question: Do they make a device that has multiple DC power
> output
> voltages (12/18/24/48) that connects directly to a set of batteries
with
> the
> ability to connect multiple devices and if so - how do you keep your
> batteries charged? I would like to run my gear directly off the DC
power
> instead of plugging everything into 120vdc and then have the wall
warts
> convert to the DC power. I currently have 10 radios on top of the
elevator
> and it is a major distribution point for the North and East legs of
our
> network.
>
> Any and all suggestions are welcomed!!
>
> Thanks folks,
> Mac
>
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