31 Aug
2007
Sustainability Of The Bioeconomy
This spring farmers responded to the ethanol industry's demand for grain by increasing their corn acreage by 19 percent over last year, as per U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates. What if that happens again next year? What if farmers decide against crop rotations and plant corn on the same fields, year after year? Or, what if farmers begin growing biomass crops such as switchgrass for the production of ethanol from plant fiber?........
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