We were walking along the bank of the Niger river, searching for the tracks of a hippopotamus that was ravaging the corn on Karim's farm.

我们沿着尼日尔河岸走着，寻找一头河马的足迹，它毁坏克莱姆村农场农作物。

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Everything about this farm stands in stark contrast to the surrounding acres of neatly rowed corn and soybean fields that typify modern agriculture.

这个农场的一切都与周围那些具有现代农业典型特点、整齐划一的玉米和大豆地截然不同。

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The price of corn drives farm profitability, and the price of corn has gone up.

玉米价格推动了农场盈利，与玉米的价格上涨了。

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(SPEAKING) Sanou says that cotton used to be the biggest part of his farm, but now that the price has been dropping, he plants more corn.

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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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