Story by Robert Turner, read by Jessica Mitchell.

If we all switch to driving electric vehicles, the market could drown in excess corn. Tobacco farmers offer solutions. Robert Turner unpacks agriculture's most intractable problems in a new column for MOTHER EARTH NEWS. This story comes from the June/July 2023 issue of MOTHER EARTH NEWS magazine.

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