The farm states are freaking out because the rise of electric vehicles could undermine their model of plowing up half the nation for corn that we don't need and thus use to burn for fuel. When it comes to South Dakota agriculture, corn is king....
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I've always gotten a certain amusement about the banality of corn. I am not the only person who feels this way. If you watch Conan O'Brien written episodes of The.
This is the grave of Earl Butz. Born in Albion, Indiana in 1909, Butz grew up working on his parents' dairy farm. Unlike many young farm boys, Butz kept on.
While food issues as political activism get nowhere the attention among liberals that it did a decade ago (remember the Michael Pollan for Obama's Secretary of Agriculture boomlet in late 2008?), our food supply is deeply unsustainable. I am skeptical of most agricultral innovations in...
We often vilify agribusiness and rightfully so. But the actual farmers growing the crops of agribusiness are just people trying to make a living in a capitalist system that constantly.
We've discussed the 1935 Idaho Potato Queen here in the past. But she didn't exist in a vacuum. Food related royalty has long been a thing in the U.S. They.
The corn industry's hustle to force us to turn it into fuel may have reached its peak. Normally, one might not look well upon the EPA lowering a standard that could theoretically burn something more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels. But ethanol is not only...
I've long been skeptical of biofuels as a meaningful way out of our energy crisis, especially considering that turning corn into fuel causes a whole lot of environmental problems of.