Reply #13: I live next to a corn field and can see growing and harvesting it is very energy intensive [View All]

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Farmer is out there all the time spraying pesticides or plowing, or fertilizing. Then he has to get the stuff harvested and to market in a couple of months. All for one ear of corn per stalk.

And then after two seasons of growing corn that field is shot. Might get one more year of beans out of it but that's about it? Can't grow nothing but weeds there after that without a lot more energy intensive work. He has to spend a year working it so something will grow there again besides weeds.

The chemical runoff from these fields ends up in our drinking water.

Got to take all that into consideration too.

Don