This has caught people’s attention because corn is being used as a biofuel.

粮食用于生物燃料的消息引起人们的广泛关注。

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This has caught people's attention because corn is being used as a biofuel.

粮食用于生物燃料的消息引起人们的广泛关注。

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Corn is extensively used as feed for livestock, and because profit margins are tight in the livestock business, many farmers are expected to leave the business.

玉米被广泛用作牲畜饲料，由于畜牧业的利润率很低，许多农民预计将退出这一行业。

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Our hypothesis is that in the United States it's less expensive to sweeten things than it is elsewhere in the world, and part of that is because of high fructose corn syrup that we'll talk about later in the class.

我们假设,在美国,让食物变甜的成本比在其他国家要低,其中一部分是因为高果糖玉米糖浆,稍后我们会讲一下这个糖浆问题

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That meant that people growing corn were less-- less vulnerable to having things wipe out entire crops because there were different types of crops planted around the world, so the world corn supply would never be threatened by anything.

也就是说只要人们种植玉米,整个粮食体系就不可能那么轻易被摧毁,由于世界各地种植着不同品种的玉米,世界玉米供应不会受到任何影响

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Because corn is increasingly used for ethanol production, it has decoupled from historical livestock cycles and changed the margin relationship between feed costs and the sale of livestock products.

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Corn, he concedes, is an energy-intensive crop, but Tumbleson says he may be better off than wheat or soybean farmers because corn is in just about everything we eat.

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Because it doesn't stir up the soil, it lets the land keep its stored carbon and even adds some, because those corn stalks on the surface gradually become part of the soil.

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