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  • Study: Biofuel Crops Replacing Grasslands, Contributing to CO2 Emissions

    - April 4, 2015, Grand Island Independent A new study from Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin-Madi­son researchers show that crops, includ­ing the corn and soy­beans used for bio­fu­els, expand­ed onto 7 mil­lion acres of new land in the U.S. over a recent four-year peri­od, replac­ing mil­lions of acres of grasslands. The study — from UW-Madi­son grad­u­ate stu­dent Tyler…