• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    2年前

    The majority of corn beans and a lot of grain all go to feeding livestock. You could be a lot more efficient growing the food directly.

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      Corn isn’t very sweet (read energy rich). It’s ridiculous to farm it for fuel. There are crops that are good, but they don’t grow well in the continental US.

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      Feed/residual doesn’t that include running sheep on harvested fields to eat the stubble and turn it into fertiliser?