[onewhippedpuppy]

Agreed with WD! Monocrop agriculture is absolutely horrible for the soil, its one of many reason why huge industrial farming operations are bad for our country. A byproduct that many have probably forgotten was the spike in food prices associated with ethanol fuel subsidies. It spiked the price of just about everything because more farmers switched to subsidized corn for fuel, corn went to fuel instead of food and feed, and the quantity of many other food products went down because of the land being used for corn production.