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Most of the corn no longer goes to farm kitchens but to ethanol plants as monumental as the federal subsidies they burn.
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At the event, USDA chief economist Joseph Glauber warned of record farm prices for corn, wheat, and soyabeans for 2011, and resulting US food inflation of at least 4% this year and next as prices work their way through the supply chain.
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He stopped growing corn and soybeans on part of his farm and turned it into pasture for cattle.
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Planters also used group incentives to encourage honesty, doling out a barrel of corn to each hand with the caveat that if anything was stolen from the farm and no one turned in the thief, double the value of that corn would be deducted from each of their Christmas awards.
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Although the Murrows doubled their acreage, the farm was still small, and the corn and hay brought in just a few hundred dollars a year.
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This farm is home to a particularly challenging six-acre corn maze.
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What we should have been trying to do in this farm bill cycle, I think, is adjust so that corn and wheat and soy bean farmers who are making good money in the marketplace, they should have gotten less money than they're going to get.
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Kopic is a 25-year-old entrepreneur who grew up on a farm in Viljevo, Croatia, a village surrounded by fields of corn, wheat and soybeans, and plenty of goats.
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Over the years the farm was used for raising goats and cattle, dairy farming, and growing corn.
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Jeff Scates, a farmer in Southern Illinois, said about 75% of his family's farm was underwater last spring, and he didn't finish planting his corn crop until early June.
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And the recent boom in commodity prices, driven by rapid growth in demand from China (along with the diversion of corn and sugar into to alcohol production), largely explains why total support fell from 37 percent of farm income in 1986 to 18 percent in 2010.
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