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Unrelated to forestry, but you make a point that I'm curious about. If or when electric cars take over, what's going to happen with all of the farmland that's p
by reportingsjr 5y ago
Unrelated to forestry, but you make a point that I'm curious about. If or when electric cars take over, what's going to happen with all of the farmland that's planted with corn for ethanol production?
It looks like around of 1/3rd of planted corn in the US is used for ethanol production for cars. https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10339 https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10339
I have a feel a lot of farms are going to turn in to more sprawling suburbs when some monster subsidies get passed to build out these abandoned farms.
- pmorici 5y agoThe cost of land is not what is keeping farmland from being turned into housing. Most farmland is very far from urban and suburban places people want to live. If it doesn't make sense to plant because of low prices they will simply let it lay fallow.