(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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