New Fuels - Biofuels: Meeting biofuel production targets could change agricultural landscape

Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions

Almost 80 percent of current farmland in the U.S. would have to be devoted to raising corn for ethanol production in order to meet current biofuel production targets with existing technology, a new study has found. An alternative, according to a study in ACS’ journal Environmental Science and Technology, would be to convert 60 percent of existing rangeland to biofuels.