🌽 The Most Important Crop on Earth: Corn 🌽

❓ Did you know that corn, or maize, is considered the most crucial crop globally from many perspectives?

While rice and wheat are also vital for human consumption, corn is grown on an immense scale worldwide.

In the US, the biggest economic and environmental cost of growing corn is nitrogen fertilizer.

🌽 Shockingly, more than half of the nitrogen fertilizer applied to corn is never absorbed by the plants. Instead, it contaminates groundwater, causing pollution, or escapes into the atmosphere, contributing to greenhouse gas warming.

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👨‍🔬 Jonathan Lynch, Ph.D., a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Science at Pennsylvania State University, highlights that this is a global challenge affecting all of humanity.

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