blog posts Quantified: Corn better used as food than biofuel Jun 20, 2017 10:15 am by Lois YoksoulianResearch Share on Facebook Tweet Email Professor Kumar and graduate student Meredith Richardson find that using corn for biofuel comes with greater environmental costs and fewer benefits than using corn for food. Images Whether corn is better utilized as food or as a biofuel has persisted since ethanol came into use. A new Illinois study crunches the numbers Share on Facebook Tweet Email