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Gulf Dead Zone: Bigger than ever
Thanks in part to that 'green' fuel, corn-based ethanol |
Tom Philpott |
17 Jul 2007 |
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| U.S. farmers planted 92.9 million acres of corn this spring, a 15 percent-plus jump from last year. If you lumped all that land together -- not too hard to imagine, given that corn ag is highly concentrated in the Midwest -- you'd have a monocropped land mass nearly equal in size to the state of California. The jump in corn acreage is excellent news if you own shares in mega meat-processing firms like Tyson and Smithfield. These firms have been complaining bitter ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, biofuels, ethanol, industrial ag, oceans, water pollution (all these topics) |
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