Madrid NewsLocal news for Madrid, NE continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Environmental group raises water-ethanol concerns- September 22, 2007 "Realize that irrigated agriculture globally produces 40 percent of the food supply on 18 percent of the arable land. So there's a value in intensive production on an acre of land, so we don't spread agriculture out all over the place" The typical Nebraska corn crop can easily consume 1,800 gallons of irrigation water to produce a single bushel of corn. via Lincoln Journal Starhttp://www.topix.net/city/madrid-ne/2007/09/environmental-group-raises-water-ethanol-conce... |