"Human nature is to do nothing, but that means you can end up with three years of corn on your farm," says Ben Brown, agricultural economist at the University of Missouri. "This strategy makes you proactive.”
United Airlines is teaming up with a corn ethanol maker in a bid to ramp up production of green jet fuel to deal with carbon credits and climate change by 2028.
Some of the best agronomic decisions Dean Sponheim has made on his north-central Iowa farm were driven by economics. Strip-till morphed into no-till and later he dived into strip cropping and cover crops.
