Whiskey Acres

In the last week, I've been fascinated by a series of stories by Holly Spangler of Prairie Farmer, documenting how one IL farm decided to capitalize on the high-income years to prepare for the future.Their out-of-the-box thinking is adding about $150/bu in value to their corn. How? By making whiskey! The sheer ingenuity of their operation is sometimes mind-blowing and sometime humorous. You're not going to want to miss this:I. So you want to make some whiskey? http://bit.ly/1JWaKH1II. Whiskey...or 10,000 acres http://bit.ly/1KWEXGEIII. Whiskey merch: Three-kernel sales http://bit.ly/1Grqqj1IV. Whiskey Acres: How we track $1,500 in daily taxeshttp://bit.ly/1QC7FkO