Met with Mat Lieberman today at the Iowa State University. Matts research is looking at crop rotations with corn, soy, alfalfa and Oats with red clover under sown. Most of the rotations in Iowa consist of Corn, Corn, Corn and Corn. There looking at Native pasture as biomass for conversion to fuel and to stabilize the landscape. 33% of the corn is used for Ethanol production and there are wind turbines every were. There is 33 million aces of production land in Iowa and it's all tile drained and planted to corn, with a soy bean plant every now and then.
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