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Bloomberg: Farmers Turn Wild Habitats Into Corn Fields
Published August 7, 2012
Farmers turned more than 23 million acres (9.3 million hectares) of wild habitats into corn, soy and wheat fields since 2008, as crop prices and subsidies rose, according to a report by an environmental group.
Texas, South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska were the top states for switching grasslands and wetlands to crops, according to a report today by the Washington-based Environmental Working Group that analyzed satellite data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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