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by Marion Nestle
Sep
28
2023
US industrial agriculture at a glance
A post on X (the site formerly known as Twitter) displayed this graph.
It comes from a policy report published on FarmDocDaily: Concentration of US Principal Crop Acres in Corn and Soybeans.
The bottom line: 30% of harvested acres is devoted to corn, and another 30% to soybeans.
These, of course, are largely genetically modified.
This is industrial agriculture at a glance.
And here’s one more, worth seeing again in this context.
Regenerative agriculture anyone?