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Study: Crop relocation can help buffer US agriculture from climate change but southern states may face massive loss of productive land

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The wheat lands of the Great Plains see a gradual hollowing-out, while winter wheat moves up from the south along the Mississippi. —Naresh Devineni, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, The City University of New York. Soybeans show a gradual movement north, replacing spring wheat and barley.

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SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

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to estimate land use changes resulting from biofuels expansion has been roundly rejected by broad array of experts, including the author of the GREET lifecycle model, Department of Energy officials, university professors and others. The methodology used by Searchinger et al. SCOPE symposium on finance, food and energy crisis.