Ethanol mandates are prompting more and more corn to be planted on land that is poorly suited for agriculture, causing erosion and pesticide runoff to infiltrate groundwater and aquifer resources.

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When teachers guide students in gaining awareness that industrial agriculture writ large, for example, results in chemical runoff from nitrogen-based fertiliers in the Mississippi River that in turn creates a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico so large that it is visible to the human eye through satellite distant imaging, students are able to grasp the basis for sustainable agriculture.

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The former will generate electricity from the runoff of the 25, 000 miles of irrigation canals mostly set up by the British in this agriculture belt.

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