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Lazy_Jellyfish7676 t1_irjlamu wrote

But we have less acres of corn than a century ago. I don’t think they were growing corn for ethanol back then. I guess we lose 2 million acres of farmland a year to houses and lawns.

https://beef2live.com/story-us-corn-acreage-yield-time-85-210990

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-lost-1-3-million-180438622.html

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ybonepike t1_irk1cae wrote

While true, thanks to modern crop genetics the yield of the crops have gone way up

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