Source: Todd Neeley, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 12/21/18


For years the seeming connection between expanded ethanol production in the United States following the second Renewable Fuel Standard in 2007 and land-use changes, was put forward by biofuels opponents as a reason for ending the RFS. More specifically, the case has been made that farmers have been tearing up native grasslands and destroying wildlife habitat to plant more corn to take advantage of the ethanol boom.

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