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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
7. Corn is a bad produce.
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 11:42 AM
Feb 2017

Corn is a very thirsty plant that will badly suck on your groundwater. I once saw a documentary about poor farmers in China. The soil was bone-dry. And what grain were they cultivating? Corn!!! They are cultivating it, because it sellls for a good price, but they aren't getting good harvests because the plant needs a moist climate!

And it's certainly not sustainable in the long term: California and the Mid-West are running out of ground-water in the long term. In 30-50 years, farms will die off en masse in the Mid-West because there will be not enough groundwater left to irrigate the fields.

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