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    THE LOOMING FOOD CRISIS

    Apr 15, 2022 3 minutes
    BY SCOTT IRWIN
    The View is reported by Mariah Espada, Nik Popli, and Simmone Shah

    Imagine driving the 600 miles between Indianapolis and Omaha. You see field after field after field of corn and soybeans. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently projected farmers in the three states you drive across—Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa—will plant 56 million acres of corn and soybeans in 2022. It turns out this is roughly equivalent to the size of planted crop acreage in Ukraine.

    This helps put into geographic perspective the huge size of the potential

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