Aventis spokeswoman Margaret Gadsby says that no corn harvested within 660 feet of StarLink corn can be used in food for people.
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This may not lead to large expansion of corn production, but it may mean that corn can be grown in areas that are drier, possibly as a consequence of climate change.
You can't see her, they can see the tops of the corn, and then the language goes on.
The RFS places a ceiling on the amount of corn that can be used for ethanol at 15 billion gallons beginning in the year 2015.
The energy needed to produce a gallon of corn-based ethanol can exceed the energy generated by the ethanol itself.
But senior energy analyst Fadel Gheit of Oppenheimer and Co. says oil companies can no more control those prices than a farmer can dictate what he gets for a bushel of corn.
We can produce another 1 billion barrels of biofuels with crops like corn, soybeans and canola.
And the high prices for both can be traced to the high cost of another commodity: corn.
It arrives with toasty corn chips and a trio of salsas, which can bring out the Goldilocks in a diner.
Centered in the room is a butcher-block tasting table, where you can order small shots of top-shelf wheat, rice, potato, corn and even grape vodka.
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The results of the experiments, reported in the journal Science, show that the modified plant can thrive even when salt levels are twice the amount that would kill a normal crop of corn.
The large doses of fructose from both sucrose (table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup may be particularly detrimental to your health as they can cause the accumulation of metabolically toxic belly fat, cholesterol abnormalities -- including high triglycerides and reduced levels of HDL (good cholesterol) -- and nonalcoholic associated fatty liver disease.
It's a blend of cotton and polylactide, a polymer derived from dextrose, which can be cost-effectively made from corn.
But regular corn-based ethanol is unlikely to be the fuel choice of American motorists anytime soon--not least because only so much farmland can be devoted to growing corn for ethanol without denting food production.
That can be understood by comparing the land use needs of a nuclear plant with those of a wind energy project or a corn ethanol operation.
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