May 18, 2010
Corn Growers Want End to Indirect Land Use Change
Published in Domestic Fuel
The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA)believes that it’s time to throw out the whole debated theory of indirect land use change.
“In 2010, the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts our corn farmers will produce more than 300 million more bushels than just three years ago, and do so on nearly 5 million fewer acres,” NCGA President Darrin Ihnen said in a news release. “International indirect land use change theory completely ignores or significantly downplays grower ingenuity and modern agronomy. This junk science needs to go the way of the horse-drawn plow.”
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