Corn for bioethanol is not feeding the nation, it's exploiting the fertile land to literally burn the output.

The argument about corn is to actually stop the waste of the fertile land for fuel. Solar panels can be installed wherever they're necessary, no one is proposing replacing the corn in situ.

You consume ethanol as food? Ethanol is supposed to go into gas cars, via the fossil fuel supply chain.

Eh. Just stop feeding your crops to cows and you need a lot less space to grow stuff. Also you can put the panels on marginal lands first and save a lot of actual good land for grains and vegetables.

It’s not an either / or… animals such as sheep can coexist with solar panels and yields go up