“Soil is more important than oil and is as much a nonrenewable resource.” —Wes Jackson Back in March, I wrote one of my most popular posts ever, titled “Is Anyone Paying Attention? We’ve Lost 9.7 Million Acres of CRP Land in Five Years.” The article began like this… The amount of land enrolled in the [...]
In the current issue of Scientific American, there is an article with nice multiple graphics to educate people about today’s higher cost of producing energy as measured by the EROI. Energy return on investment (EROI) is the value used to represent the energy obtained per unit of energy spent to obtain it. The article titled, [...]
Do you know what percent of the U.S. soybean crop is used for biodiesel? The biodiesel use of soybeans is to be about 16 percent of the total soybean crop this coming year (as a % of total U.S. soybean acres – used for biodiesel) or 468 million bushels. Both the biodiesel and ethanol plants [...]
