Ag looking at Conservation Reserve acres to ease corn shortage
December 18, 2006

Huge increases in the demand for corn due to the ethanol boom have caused many to wonder where the corn will come from. One widely-circulated suggestion is to use millions of acres currently in the Conservation Reserve Program, which is intended to provide a buffer between the land and waterways. While those acres could be useful for producing much-wanted corn, they are also important to protecting drinking water supplies.

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last revised December 2006