National Geographic has an article entitled "Raiding the Bread Basket". It's about how agriculture has affected the Mississippi River Basin.
You wake up to cereal made from midwestern corn. You slip on cotton clothes, get into a vehicle fueled partly by ethanol and dine later on chicken and rice—all made possible by crops from the Mississippi River Basin, a vast area that stretches from Montana to New York and drains all or parts of 31 states.
All told, it's among the most productive farming regions in the world. Trouble is, fertilizer that flows from fields (and cities) takes a toll on local waters and eventually reaches the Mississippi River and the economically important fisheries of the Gulf of Mexico...
Read it and tell me what you think, especially about their ideas for change.
Make sure you identify the crop rotation strategies we covered in 1st semester!
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