The Ethanol Squeeze Play: Based upon the evidence, retailers can still expect to make money from the biofuels movement in 2008 - but they will have to be more creative to do so

摘要

NOT to over-simplify the situation, but the ag retail marketplace really had an easy time in 2007. For the most part, retailers were able to sit back (metaphorically speaking, of course), watch their grower-customers plant 12 million more acres of corn than anybody expected, and step up to the plate with products and services that catered to this market segment. In almost every case, the result was a home run in terms of profits.