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What the world needs now
Three million more acres of industrial corn? |
Tom Philpott |
18 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| According to USDA projections, U.S. farmers will plant 86 million acres of corn in 2008. At any time in the last 50 years, that would be plenty. Since 1958, USDA figures tell us, farmers have broken 80 million acres only ten times. In fact, if farmers meet expectations, 2008 will rank as the second-largest planting of corn since 1949. If you own shares in a fertilizer company -- corn being an extremely fertilizer-intensive crop -- you're celebrating. Indeed, shares o ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, cellulosic ethanol, Department of Agriculture, industrial ag (all these topics) |
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