Corn Farmers Coalition

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.