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Chickens coming home to roost
Hope they don't want any corn |
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13 Aug 2007 |
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| What? A sharply hotter climate and abundant CO2 aren't good for field crops? But, but ... the coal lobby Greening Earth Society said they would be! Fitting: the photo accompanying this story in The Detroit News shows a huge trailer of corn being deposited at an ethanol plant. Michigan corn may have been knee-high by July, but a scorching summer has made the harvest one of the worst in the nation, federal statistics show. Early hopes for a fruitful harvest have give ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, climate, food, Michigan (all these topics) |
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