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Obviously nobody in this discussion has spent any time around a farm. Crop residues from corn (or any other crop) aren't just waste, they get used as silage for animal feed or left on the fields as compost that gets cycled back into the soil. If those residues were used for cellulosic biofuel production, something would have to replace them in those feed and nutrient streams

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