Global grain production outpaced population growth, and Mr Borlaug won the Nobel peace prize in 1970 for saving hundreds of millions of lives.

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Sports bloggers in January began poking fun at Turner online from its 14-student high school to its nonprofit organization, "The Big Flat Community Grain Bin, " created to stem population decline.

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