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April 21, 2010
April 21, 2010
Corn Farmer, Iowa
Photograph by John Stanmeyer
This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Environment
Jason Hinson, a sixth-generation corn farmer near Kingston, Iowa, keeps an eye on his auger as he unloads his combine on the fly. Federal mandates for corn-based ethanol soaked up 30 percent of the 2008 U.S. crop, helping send corn prices over eight dollars a bushel last year—triple the 2005 price. As long as energy prices remain high, biofuels will compete with food for land and water across the globe.
See more photographs from the June 2009 National Geographic feature story "The End of Plenty."
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