corn
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Can we finally make gasoline out of corncobs?
Maybe we really will drive corn-powered cars someday
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How to prepare yourself for the Baconpocalypse
An industry trade group says that "a world shortage of pork and bacon next year is now unavoidable” due to the summer’s crazy weather.
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Increasing Pollution, Dwindling Options
The Food and Environmental Reporting Network released a striking report this week (Sept. 18) describing how industrial agriculture and climate change are fueling massive blooms of toxic algae: Blooms have closed lake beaches or led to swimming advisories from Vermont’s Lake Champlain to Dorena Reservoir in Oregon and from Florida’s Caloosahatchee River to Wisconsin’s Lake Menomin. In addition to […]
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Meet the only person who made money off the drought
Renee Haugerud is a farmer's daughter, but she's also the founder of a fancy New York hedge fund. These two attributes have made her basically the only person in the country to have come out ahead from this summer's terrible drought.
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The saddest pictures of drought-stressed corn
You’ve likely heard by now that there will be little to no corn this year because the drought is killing all of it. And while that sounds bad enough in theory, the reality of it is even more pathetic. Just look at these sad, sad ears of corn: Awww. It’s just ready to give up. […]
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Monsanto WISHES it could make corn this cool
“Glass Gem” corn looks almost CGI, but it actually comes out of the ground that way. It’s the product of a small farm and a retro, handcrafted approach to agriculture — “genetic modification” from back when genetic modification meant painstaking generations of selective breeding.
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It’s official: China now eats twice the meat we do
China's meat consumption has changed a lot in the last 20 years -- so much so that corn to feed industrially raised animals is now more prevalent than rice.
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The mother who stood up to Monsanto in Argentina
A winner of this year's Goldman Environmental Prize, Sofia Gatica organized women in her city to study the health effects of agrochemicals in the soy fields and worked to get a dangerous pesticide banned. Now she's taking on Monsanto.
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Antibiotics in your meat? The ethanol industry might be partly to blame
Many farmers feed livestock spent grain from the ethanol process in order to lower feed costs. New research confirms what some have long suspected: Those byproducts contain antibiotics from the ethanol distilling process.