It competes with food crops for fertile land. That means: it pushes food production to places with worse water, farther from consumption centers, increasing waste and costs related to transport.
Maybe in the US the situation is not clear because you have vast plains so it doesn't matter if you cover the entire surface with corn, but here in Brazil, my state vanished with an entire forest just for sugar cane and soy crops. Google "Atlantic Forest".
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It competes with food crops for fertile land. That means: it pushes food production to places with worse water, farther from consumption centers, increasing waste and costs related to transport.
Maybe in the US the situation is not clear because you have vast plains so it doesn't matter if you cover the entire surface with corn, but here in Brazil, my state vanished with an entire forest just for sugar cane and soy crops. Google "Atlantic Forest".