Comments on: Corn Wars https://www.isegoria.net/2015/08/corn-wars/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 12 May 2026 23:05:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Grasspunk https://www.isegoria.net/2015/08/corn-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-2369280 Grasspunk Sun, 23 Aug 2015 22:20:05 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38726#comment-2369280 The fun thing about corn is what it is used for. Animal feed (esp. pork and chicken, but also feedlot fattening of beef). And these days it goes in to fuel. The article mentions that China uses most of its corn for animal feed, but so does the USA.

I was enjoying that story of corn development, but they kinda stopped before the green revolution. And didn’t know that the newer varieties used way more N, but of course they would. Since the yield is so much higher they’ll use more of everything.

The drive behind this corn espionage: the Chinese are eating more meat.

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