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James Lankford: “So if I remember correctly, and again, it is off the top of my head, about eight million additional acres are now corn…”

On the recordNovember 30, 2016
So if I remember correctly, and again, it is off the top of my head, about eight million additional acres are now corn that used to not be corn.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford questions the conversion of grasslands to corn production.

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