Duke Study Finds Using CRP Land to Grow Corn for Ethanol Results in Increased Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Date Posted: March 2, 2009

Durham, NC—To avoid creating greenhouse gases, it makes more sense using today's technology to leave land unfarmed in conservation reserves than to plow it up for corn to make biofuel, according to a comprehensive Duke University-led study.

"Converting set-asides to corn-ethanol production is an inefficient and expensive greenhouse gas mitigation policy that should not be encouraged until ethanol-production technologies improve," the study's authors reported in the March edition of the research journal Ecological Applications.

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