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ncpa-cpl on May 19, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Coming Food Catastrophe

Hi! Just wanted to ask, are the cultivars or varieties for corn for human food, ethanol and corn for cattle feed different?

colechristensen on May 19, 2022 [–]

Each seed company provides a large number of options, some of them for specific uses, some of them not so much.

The main differences are days to maturity, resistances to a variety of things, and nutrition content.

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