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1. Laurence Sheldon says:

   April 5, 2008 at 4:42 pm

   Around where I live (for the past 18 years or so), there has bee a pretty rapid (it seems to me) conversion of land from corn, soybeans, and feeder cattle to houses, stores and hospitals.

   The market in used houses appears to have died.

   Has anybody measured the rate of conversion in light of the “biofuels” thing?

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