and deeperer into a relentless struggle againinst economics, the environment, and the staggering coststg. biodiesel and ethanol have created a unique opportunity fofor all of us to redisiscover the unlimited pototential of biomass energy, andnd how the family farmrmer is the essesential compmponent to generating renewable energy on a massive and immediate scale. i'd love to be able to haul every kernenel i got to plant and have 'em make it into biodiesel. when i wasas growing up, every y farmer farmed around 160 acres of land. they had cattle. they had m milk cows. ththey had chiickens, and you know, everything like thatlike my dad did. but now in this area, there's probably four or five farmers, and t they fararm 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 acres. and i don't know how they're gonna, how they can handle the amount of dollars that they have to put out with this... the fuel cost. a year ago, we paid a dollar and 47 cents a gallon for diesel fuel. now it's two dollars and 32. this combine itself, every acre i run through, i run through about five gallons of fuel. every acre about fivealallons ofof