Comments on: US Dairy Industry to Help USDA Meet 25% by 2020 Copenhagen Target http://cleantechnica.com/2009/12/22/us-dairy-industry-to-help-usda-meet-25-by-2020-copenhagen-target/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 04:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2009/12/22/us-dairy-industry-to-help-usda-meet-25-by-2020-copenhagen-target/#comment-25454 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:13:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4270#comment-25454 You know I had always thought that too: that corn was unknown in Europe/Asia till after the New World trading connection too – you may be right.

It really surprised me to read that Egypt was shipping corn to Rome, because what happened to it that we didn’t know about in Europe fifteen centuries later?

]]> By: Adam http://cleantechnica.com/2009/12/22/us-dairy-industry-to-help-usda-meet-25-by-2020-copenhagen-target/#comment-7967 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:44:24 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4270#comment-7967 Great article – an excellent way to minimise the (considerable) GHG emissions of the dairy industry. Just one niggle – it was impossible for Egypt to grow ANY corn in 100 AD because it is a New World crop… in Europe, ‘corn’ is sometimes used a general term like ‘grain’ (as it was in the article you linked to).

]]> By: Adam http://cleantechnica.com/2009/12/22/us-dairy-industry-to-help-usda-meet-25-by-2020-copenhagen-target/#comment-25453 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:44:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4270#comment-25453 Great article – an excellent way to minimise the (considerable) GHG emissions of the dairy industry. Just one niggle – it was impossible for Egypt to grow ANY corn in 100 AD because it is a New World crop… in Europe, ‘corn’ is sometimes used a general term like ‘grain’ (as it was in the article you linked to).

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2009/12/22/us-dairy-industry-to-help-usda-meet-25-by-2020-copenhagen-target/#comment-7968 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:13:15 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4270#comment-7968 You know I had always thought that too: that corn was unknown in Europe/Asia till after the New World trading connection too – you may be right.

It really surprised me to read that Egypt was shipping corn to Rome, because what happened to it that we didn’t know about in Europe fifteen centuries later?

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