{"id":534902,"date":"2010-04-20T01:07:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T05:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/productive-farmland-should-grow-food-not-fuel\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T01:07:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T05:07:08","slug":"productive-farmland-should-grow-food-not-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534902","title":{"rendered":"Productive Farmland Should Grow Food not Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/files\/2010\/04\/4054822135_7f7e2a650f_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5800\" title=\"4054822135_7f7e2a650f_b\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/files\/2010\/04\/4054822135_7f7e2a650f_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s 36 percent more efficient to grow grain for food than for fuel,\u201d said the lead author of a paper that looked at 17 years worth of data to help settle the food versus fuel debate.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe ideal is to grow corn for food,\u201d said Ilya Gelfand , a Michigan State University postdoctoral researcher, \u201cthen leave the leftover stalks and leaves on the field for soil conservation and produce <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2008\/04\/02\/worlds-first-commercially-viable-cellulosic-ethanol-plant-online-2009\/\">cellulosic ethanol<\/a> with the other half.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It comes down to what&#8217;s the most efficient use of the land,&#8221; said Phil Robertson, University Distinguished Professor of crop and soil sciences and one of the paper&#8217;s authors. &#8220;Given finite land resources, will it be more efficient to use productive farmland for food or fuel? One compromise would be to use productive farmland for both &#8212; to use the grain for food and the other parts of the plant for fuel where possible. Another would be to reserve productive farmland for food and to grow biofuel grasses &#8212; cellulosic biomass &#8212; on less productive land.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/productive-farmland-should-grow-food-not-fuel\/#more-5799\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s 36 percent more efficient to grow grain for food than for fuel,\u201d said the lead author of a paper that looked at 17 years worth of data to help settle the food versus fuel debate. \u201cThe ideal is to grow corn for food,\u201d said Ilya Gelfand , a Michigan State University postdoctoral researcher, \u201cthen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}