Plows and Pitchforks # 8

Sustainability is the new ‘cool.’



June 29, 2013



By Matt Bernau



I was overcome by an urgent need to crawl inside my computer screen and yell at the author of the misguided opinions I was reading. Some white-paper study claimed that corn production is more ‘sustainable’ than in the past because corn producers are raising more bushels from less land.



The amount of land used to