More and more mid-Atlantic farmland is becoming inundated with salt, making crops like corn and soybeans ungrowable. Visible salt patches almost doubled across land along the Delmarva Peninsula, and over 20,000 acres of farmland were converted to marsh. The range of economic losses has been estimated between $39.4 million and $107.5 million annually under circumstances where farmers abandoned corn and soybeans altogether. Salt Meadow Cordgrass could be one answer. It often yields a bumper crop and can stop coastal erosion. According to the Good News Network, this crop from colonial times may be a future harvest in places like Delaware and New Jersey. The native species has been used for building insulation, as packing material, and as an additive to concrete, for paper, textiles, fodder for animals. The cordgrass is naturally free of seeds and weeds because of its strangulating root system, which makes it useful as a premium mulch for flower beds.
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