Corn Farmers Coalition

How does growing all this corn affect the environment?

Farmers are stewards of the land. They must be, or else despoil the resource from which they make their living. So they have as much – or more – of a stake in protecting the environment as environmentalists. Just a few examples of the progress they are making: Through reduced tillage and other farm management practices, farmers have cut erosion by 43 percent in 20 years. Farmers produce 70 percent more corn from a pound of fertilizer than they did 35 years ago. All this means a diminished carbon footprint, fewer greenhouse gases and less global warming.

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