Elsewhere, some growers who have not been able to switch crops are leaving their cornfields fallow.
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From Indianapolis north, factory towns such as Kokomo sit amid acres of cornfields.
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"But I could only teach them this, " he says, pointing to the arid cornfields on his small parcel of land.
Fittingly, the plant is based in the corn country of Nebraska, on 20 acres of former cornfields outside the town of Blair.
It's easier for a developer to buy 50 acres of cornfields and bulldoze them then it is to renovate an old warehouse district.
When you bet on them you're competing with the largest companies in the world, which have employees standing in cornfields and climatologists running supercomputers.
This time, down through Normal, Illinois, from high up in white Minnesota, dead of winter, icy roads, wind blowing sideways across the empty cornfields.
For now, the only things digging in the cornfields are worms.
He races out into the night, sobbing, stumbling through the cornfields.
We memorialize the armies of men, and women disguised as men, black and white, who fell in apple orchards and cornfields in a war that saved our union.
We got into his black Audi sedan and climbed a road up into the hills, where we turned onto a rutted muddy track lined with cornfields and brick farmhouses.
It is a dreamscape is filled with stunning imagery, from ocher-hued cornfields to snow-capped mountains, and enormous ships in bottles -- a reference to a hobby shared with her father when she was alive.
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About 500 miles away from the cornfields of southern Illinois, in Chicago, Ceres, the goddess of agriculture stands atop the city's board of trade, the place that claims to have invented futures trading in in the 19th Century.
While Dodington relishes recapturing the city's past glory, he is nevertheless drawn to the dynamic changes in Shanghai, now home to some 20 million residents -- a far cry from his hometown hidden in the cornfields of central Texas with a population of 953.
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