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Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:20:00 +0000

Last night, "Colbert Report" aired a special investigative report on how the historic Mitchell Corn Palace is coping with only 8 colors of corn this year. Colbert explains, "this isn't just Mitchell's Corn Palace, this is America's Corn Palace."

The story of the Corn Palace is truly amaizing.

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America’s corn addiction

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:42:00 +0000

Last week, the United States Department of Agriculture released a report on the state of the country’s corn, and the verdict is not good. The report—the first that estimates production based on surveying the fields of U.S. farmers—shows that farmers are on track to produce 10.8 billion bushels of corn this year, a 17 percent drop from last year. This summer’s drought has parched King Corn: some ears have only a few sweet kernels to offer, others droop, brown and defeated.

10.8 billion bushels is still a lot of corn. The USDA report notes that this year’s harvest could be the smallest since 2006. What it doesn’t point out is there are only two years in U.S. history prior to 2006 where the country produced more corn than it will produce this year. Those years were 2004 and 2005.

Even with the drought, America will grow and harvest more corn in 2012 than in almost any time in its history.

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America’s corn addiction