text: Jacob McDaniels, Your statements are misleading. First, you claim that the article uses "metric numbers" and "pounds," but it does not. Instead, it uses percentages to show increases or decreases in yield or herbicide use. Second, you claim that "today there are tens of million more acres in production then (sic) there was twenty years ago." However, according to data from the USDA, the number of acres in production has been stable in the US for the past 20 years. In 1995 it was 318,289,000 acres; in 2005 it was 317,640,000 acres; and in 2015 it was 318,512,000 acres. (continued)