Corn, The Crop of a Nation

August 17, 2008

ohio corn

This image is from my parent’s property in rural Ohio. A neighbor farmer plants their field, alternating corn and soy beans. This year, it’s a bumper crop of corn, adding a few bushels to the vast amounts of the subsidized miracle grass that undergirds the food industry in this country. 

These stalks were likely planted using chemically engineered seed and plenty of nitrogen rich “fertilizer” and are destined for a can of soda near you.

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